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When I get scared, I think back to Moses Cleveland, who, while fighting the Revolution, was captured by the Native Americans who were siding with the British, and how he was able to escape with his life. I think of William Weaver, a poor man from Tennessee who enlisted in Illinois to fight for the Union, only to be invalided for life while one of his brothers died in battle, another was gravely wounded, and another went insane. The blood of these men flows in my veins, for they were some of my ancestors. They were willing to give all for America-dare I do less?
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