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    the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?

    Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?

    Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.

    Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.

    Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army, another had two sons captured.

    Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.

    They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

    What kind of men were they?

    Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated.

    But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

    Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.

    Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to leave his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

    Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.

    At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.

    Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.

    John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart.

    Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.

    Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education.

    They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged:

    "For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."

    They gave you and me a free and independent America.


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    OUTSTANDING POST Brother. Neither one of them offered up legislation, called for guest workers, condonned abortion, they were mostly all Mason's, and they were not wimps, punks, or on Ritalin. They were REAL MEN. They made it possible for us to have this board, and they must be rolling in their graves on this "indepence day" with us being dependent on oil from terrorist, fruit from Chile, Chinese gadgets and junk, and McDeath Stupid Meals. I am sure they are very pleased with all the meth labs, saggy pant idiots, tongue rings, ADD, CAFTA, soccer moms, gays in the military, the greedy Walton Klan in Arkansass, and all of the glourious things that have tranpired since they put their VERY LIVES ON THE LINE. For what? For a bunch of single digit, low frequency, cholestrol filled lazy bums. We should all be ashamed of ourselves, but I am going to make up for my part in a very dramatic and unmistakeable manner. I am not talking about joining hands with LaRacist and singing "We Shall Overcome".
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    Charlesoakisland, what a wonderful post...I knew they suffered hardship, death and great loss but did not know the specifics of each one.

    For "theyjustwantabetterlife"....this is the reason Americans are who we are. We know nothing in America is Free. Nothing has been and nothing will be. So all of you out there looking for a "free lunch", wise up. We're Here, We're Awake, We're Remembering, We're Ready to take our country back, to recall our day that was meant for Americans willing to risk everything for the sake of liberty for the next generation.

    Listen Up Americans, and all others watching this board, anyone who is here illegally, needs to go home. These signers of the Declaration of Independence did not die, suffer and lose everything for free-loaders, free-lunchers, liars, thieves or traitors.

    Listen Up Globalists, and all others watching this board, anyone working to end this nation in any manner whether it be through illegal immigration, open borders, pacts with nations, free trade agreements, weakening the US economy, increasing debt beyond our means to repay, giving money borrowed on national debt to countries fully capable of fending for themselves, allowing foreign communist countries to purchase our oldest and finest corporations, using legislators to create markets for your products that can not be sold otherwise, manipulating emerging nations to buy GMO seeds before they even have a Parliament or Congress, buying up water rights and manipulating privatization, to name a few bad deeds....THIS WILL NOT FLY HERE!! NOT NOW, NOT ANY MORE.

    Your gig is up!! We've got your numbers. We're watching your every move. We know who you are; who you play with; what you've done. There will be a pay back, because there must be. We are now into our Tenth Generation of American since the day the Declaration of Independence Was Signed. There was no more brutal war of suffering than this one, because the American Patriots were without funds, without equipment, without weapons, without food, without shelter, without safety nets, without resources. They defeated, nonetheless, the most powerful and cruel regime on the earth at that time...The British Empire.

    Their Victory was a miracle many would say who look back to calculate the odds and predict an outcome. These Patriots defied all odds. They achieved the unachievable. And with the help of a renegade Admiral, Admiral Lafayette from France and other Frenchmen towards well into the war, they performed a miracle and created the word "liberty". Yes, liberty existed as a word, but these 56 and all the thousands who fought with them during the Revolutionary War gave true meaning to the Word...Liberty. The American Liberty was the first true Liberty on Earth and the Liberty all other nations dream to have.

    Have some squandered it? Oh yes. Have some taken it for granted? Oh yes. Have some tried to steal it? Oh yes. Have some tried to trade it for a bag of gold? Oh yes. Have some tried to use it to manipulate mankind? Oh yes.

    For those who have squandered it, wake up!! Burn your labs, flush your pills, put the cap back on the bottle and throw it as far as you can see. Get your minds and bodies in order. Get fit. You have a fight on your hands, a real fight, a fight worth having, a fight we must win....together.

    For those who have taken it for granted, wake up. Freedom isn't free nor does it last by itself in words alone. Freedom is maintained and nurtured by paying attention; seeking truth at all times; understanding the events surrounding you; keeping the gate closed to keep harm away; keeping a back door open to escape the corral of an intended slaughter; protecting what is yours and your fellow Americans; defending freedom and liberty at all times and trading it for nothing; expunging Traitors promptly when they accidentally reveal themselves even if slowly, even if subtlely; standing up when the times call for it; fearing nothing more than the loss of your liberty; and fighting to defend Her.

    For those who have tried to steal it, go home. Freedom is ours to share but not to give. Freedom is a gift you earn at your own risk and peril, because only then does it mean anything to you. Freedom isn't about a 'free lunch" a "job" a "ticket to a better life" or "free education". Freedom is only the right to to pursue these things at your own risk, your own peril, your own cost for then they will mean something to you. Go home in peace now. Take what you have learned here and build your own freedom in your homeland with lives that suit you on your own terms. Americans will help you build your own free nation, but we will never give you ours.

    For those who have tried to trade our liberty and freedom for a bag of gold. You shall lose all. You will be jailed and all your possessions taken in payment to the American People for what you have done and are trying to do. You were given a business license, a privilege to pursue wealth from our system, the greatest business system in the world. You have violated that privilege. You have forsaken the system that made your wealth. You have betrayed the nation and the people who gave you the privilege to earn that wealth through their toil, their natural resources, their environment, their intelligence, their ideas, their liberty and freedom that others before them died, suffered, and sacrificed for the benefit of a new nation and the well-being of future generations. You are Traitors for Gold, the Most Despicable Traitors of Them All. You shall receive the harshest punishment for justice to those you've harmed and to shout to the world that THIS WILL NOT FLY HERE!

    For those who have used our liberty to manipulate mankind, there is no greater Evil. You disgrace the American People; you deceive other nations in Our Name; your tricks, schemes, and camillion plots in the name of American Liberty shame our forefathers, ancestors, signers of the Declaration of Independence, the authors of our Constitution, our soldiers and the civilians who support them; each and every American Citizen not part of your game; and this game to rule the world in the name of American Liberty is a farce exposed and a gig that is up. You shall be accountable both to the Americans and the citizens of the other nations you deceived. You shall be prosecuted and jailed; humilated; placed on show in a glass cage for the rest of your lives....to remind us and mankind how closely one must watch their Leaders, the need to reign them tightly as they attempt to govern and to Shout to the World that What's Afoot, THIS TOO WILL NOT FLY HERE!

    To the 250,000,000 true Americans....this will be your year. 229 years ago an important day made history that changed the world....July 4, 1776. Here we are for the first time in our history on the brink of losing our nation. The weapon is not military; the enemy is not foreign; the war is not between nations. The weapon is language, rulings, agreements, pacts. The enemy is our own Leaders. The war is within. It is deadly because of its means and strategy. Double-talk; double-meaning; deception on the grandest scale imaginable....so well-done it is nearly invisible but for the questioning mind; the watchful eye; the seeking of the truth that by the grace of God found US.

    "Seek and ye shall find". A promise made long ago by a very wise man whom many of us believe was the Son of God. Whether you believe in God or Not, know this...the truth we now have about "what's afoot" and the effort to end our nation....came only through the efforts of those with enough radar in their beings to detect a bad wind. We shall debate for centuries hereafter...did we find the truth or did it find us. I believe it found US because we searched, because we cared, because our nation and fellow man were more important to us than ourselves, and God decided our time was not yet up.

    In the spirit of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, the time has come to declare our independence once again; to rededicate our lives to the protection of our Free Nation; to set her path straight and clear; to eject those here on bad purpose and form; to expunge those trying to end our nation; and send Evil on its way once again.

    It is our job to do, and only ours, because this is the United States and We are the Americans.


    LONG LIVE THE USA, the greatest nation and people on the face of the earth. LET FREEDOM RING....for it is our bell to toll. JOIN US World, for this is a bell we will always share.

    Celebrate tomorrow with joy, honor, devotion, dedication, appreciation, remembrance, and emotion. Give the day all she deserves, because July 4, 1776 is without question the Greatest Day in the History of the Free World.

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    Judy is right. 229 years is nothing to let just get away. And we have not begun to fight, but we are ready. We the PEOPLE are ready. It is easy to call yourself an American TODAY, but had you done so when the DOI was signed, you would have been subject to some of the same indignities these noble, brave, and selfless men did. Wake up and smell the stinch. If you won't fight for your nation now, you may not have a nation to celebrate 4 July 2006. This is NOT impossible. We have to pull together, and what better day to rededicate our selves than this day. The day that makes all the others possible.
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    Quote from SIXX:

    July 4, 1776 "The Day That Makes All the Others Possible"!!

    BEAUTIFUL WORDS SIXX!!

    And no truer words were ever written.



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    Charles,

    I gathered my children around me this morning and read this to them.

    Thank-you, Happy 4th!

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    Thanks for the post very inspiring.
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    I am ready for whatever it takes (licensed, equipped, trained, and very accurate). While I dont have children of my own, I will vigorously defend the RIGHTS of my neice and nephew to inherit the America that the brave signers of the Declaration of Independence risked everything for. NO ENTITY, GOVERNMENT, OR OTHERWISE, WILL STEAL OUR HISTORY, SOVEREIGNTY, OR FREEDOM!!!

    That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

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    GreyParrot--Where did you find the quote? It is OUTSTANDING!!

    Happy 4th of July!!

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    GreyParrot--Where did you find the quote? It is OUTSTANDING!!
    http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm

    Every word, and every signature...humbles me to my very core. That quoted snippet just happens to be one of my favorites (albeit totally ignored by our contemporary government).

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