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To: JBTFD who wrote (4283)	11/7/2006 5:06:00 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

What it means is that sometimes God likes to put on a red jersey and pretend he is Joe Montana. Check out them extremities.

To: JBTFD who wrote (4283)	11/7/2006 5:17:06 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 10087

It is from a letter of encouragement that Sarah wrote to her husband, who served under George Washington. She sent the letter after Coronel Howe had delivered a particularly devastating defeat to Washington's army... and at a time when it looked like the British were very near to prevailing over the revolutionary army. I saw the letter on a video presentation some time back but I can't find it anywhere on line...sorry. I took the statement to be encouragement for her husband who must have been near despondency; encouragement to be strong and maintain hope even though his circumstances might have seemed beyond redemption. Washington's Army certainly did have some fortunate turns of events right on the heals of her statement, which of course made her support even more cool as the tide of the war began to turn.

To: JBTFD who wrote (4283)	11/7/2006 5:40:15 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

Sarah and Joseph Hodgkins -- letters Joseph Hodgkins (1743-1829) was a cobbler who lived in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and fought at Bunker Hill, Long Island, White Plains, and Princeton. By 1778, he had been made a captain and was suffering through the winter at Valley Forge. While he was gone, one of his three children died, and a fourth --- a daughter conceived on a leave --- was born. Joseph's wife, Sarah Perkins Hodgkins (1751?-1803), took his absence fairly stoically. But the four-year separation grew increasingly difficult. In the couple's letters to each other --- more than a hundred survive --- Joseph revealed the hardships and frustrations of life as a revolutionary soldier, and Sarah the hardships and frustrations of life as a revolutionary ife. Her fears for him notwithstanding, Joseph would not only survive the war but would live to see the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. teenreads.com