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Jack Lewis
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 Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:35 pm Post subject: This day in history |
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September 22, 1776: Nathan Hale, about to be hung for spying on the British declares, "I regret that I have but one life to give to my country."
Septemebr 22, 1968: Lieutenant John Kerry contemplates his decision to use his three scratches, two of them self-inflicted, to leave the military, go home and falsely acuse other soldiers who have died for their country of being war criminals.
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m_drummond
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Contemplating just leaving then, or inflicting a Zippo lighter burn for a fourth PH and maybe reporting he'd single-handedly captured an entire VC division with said Zippo, scoring a MOH? Maybe he just had more unexposed 8mm film left. Maybe he couldn't find his Magic Hat or his Wonder Dog. The possibilities are endless.
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Jack Lewis
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I think I got the date wrong. September of '69 would have been between his third boo-boo and leaving.
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neverforget
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He left in March, 1969.
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cipher
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| Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | September 22, 1776: Nathan Hale, about to be hung for spying on the British declares, "I regret that I have but one life to give to my country." |
Everyone gets that one wrong. Although there are no ACCURATE accounts of what he said, it is far more likely that he said:
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
There is a BIG difference between "give to" and "lose for".
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Stevie
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| Posted: Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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| cipher wrote: | | Quote: | | September 22, 1776: Nathan Hale, about to be hung for spying on the British declares, "I regret that I have but one life to give to my country." |
Everyone gets that one wrong. Although there are no ACCURATE accounts of what he said, it is far more likely that he said:
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
There is a BIG difference between "give to" and "lose for". |
gee cipher, I hate to disagree, but I think he said:
'I regret that I have but one losing position for my country; if I live, I vow to have multiple losing positions in the future'
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cipher
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If Nathan Hale were John Kerry, he'd've said he had one life to regret losing before he gave it, but then regreted giving it after losing it.
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