2018: Get beaten up on behalf on humanity
2019: Same
2020: Same
2021: Same
2022: Same
I have vague hopes that by the end of 2023 my daughters will have figured out that I am not quite as embarrassing a father as they previously believed. Would be nice not to get beaten up quite so much for a change.
But I would rather be a fighter than any of the alternatives.
Thomas Paine's words hold true!
"THESE are the times that try men’s souls: The summer
soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink
from the service of his country; but he that stands it now,
deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like
hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with
us, that the harder the , the more glorious the triumph.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: It is
dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows
how to set a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange
indeed, if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be
highly rated..."
Dec. 19, 1776: Published as a pamphlet in Philadelphia.
Dec. 24, 1776: Read to Washington’s troops before the crossing of the
Delaware River and victory in the Battle of Trenton.
https://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/war/text2/painecrisis1776.pdf
