{"id":30652,"date":"2012-07-06T07:28:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T11:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30652"},"modified":"2012-07-06T07:28:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T11:28:14","slug":"joseph-plumb-martins-final-words-that-we-didnt-heed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30652","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Plumb Martin’s final words that we didn’t heed"},"content":{"rendered":"

TT sends a link to the Maine Sun Journal<\/a> about Joseph Plumb Martin. If you’ve ever watched any History Channel programs about our Revolutionary War, you probably recognize the name, since he’s constantly quoted from his memoirs as the “soldier’s voice” from that war.<\/p>\n

Martin’s \u201cA Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier\u201d is considered to be the authentic narrative of the entire war from a private soldier’s perspective. <\/p>\n

His final battle was against the government to keep the meager pension he’d earned in service to his country and in the final passages of his book, he warned future soldiers about the government;<\/p>\n

\u201cHe says in the final lines of the memoir that the U.S. made soldiers fulfill their contracts but was negligent in fulfilling its promises to them,\u201d Mead said. He writes, \u201cThey had all the power and we had none \u2014 such things ought not to be.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I know, it always been that way. I’m sure someone in the comments will end up quoting Kipling’s “Tommy”, but still after awhile you’d think the people in government would tire of being a cliche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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