{"id":11988,"date":"2011-11-11T18:58:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T23:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11988"},"modified":"2011-11-11T18:58:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T23:58:14","slug":"a-revolutionary-war-veteran%e2%80%99s-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11988\/a-revolutionary-war-veteran%e2%80%99s-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"A Revolutionary War Veteran\u2019s Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/1209-lessons-from-1815\" target=\"_blank\">Quin\u2019s column<\/a> this week reminding us of the lessons to learn from the War of 1812 (though the battle he writes about occurred in 1815), it\u2019s nice to a plug for the Revolutionary War heroes flow from Eliot Cohen\u2019s pen in today\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703597804576194312741837934.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 After recounting some of the highlights from America\u2019s 200 years of military intrigue along the \u201cGreat Warpath\u201d from Albany to Quebec, Cohen ends his masterful treatment with this poignant command from one of our nation\u2019s first veterans:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the relics carefully preserved at the Fort Ticonderoga museum is the knapsack of Benjamin Warner, a some time soldier during the Revolution who, like many of his fellow citizens, fought, went home and returned to fight again, and not once but half a dozen times. Fifty years later, he left the battered canvas bag to his oldest son, with instructions to transmit it &#8220;to the latest posterity. And whilst one shred of it shall remain, never surrender your liberties to a foreign invader or an aspiring demagogue.&#8221; In this age of uncertainty and self-doubt, that spirit is yet another legacy of the Great Warpath worth pondering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Quin\u2019s column this week reminding us of the lessons to learn from the War of 1812 (though the battle he writes about occurred in 1815), it\u2019s nice to a plug for the Revolutionary War heroes flow from Eliot Cohen\u2019s pen in today\u2019s Wall Street Journal.\u00a0 After recounting some of the highlights from America\u2019s 200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[342,3178],"class_list":["post-11988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-military","tag-veteran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11988"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11994,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988\/revisions\/11994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}