tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10193821.post6499930873913046175..comments2024-03-25T16:57:17.825-05:00Comments on Bostonmaggie: Good....... Lord.BostonMaggiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17298341600851300309noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10193821.post-84909940348426882452007-04-03T14:51:00.000-05:002007-04-03T14:51:00.000-05:00I suppose we should expect the denial that Nathan ...I suppose we should expect the denial that Nathan Hale's actual goal in life was to be a teacher; that his best friend, Benjamin Tallmade, Washington's intelligence officer, shared the same goal.<BR/>A letter from Tallmadge to Hale after the former heard of Hale's commitment to the Revolution:<BR/>"Liberty is closely connected with learning...When I consider yu a Brother Pedagogue, engaged in a calling , useful, honorable and doubtless to you very entertaining, it seems difficult to advise you to relinquish your business... On the other hand, when I consider our country, a LAnd..holding open her arms and demanding Assistance from all who can assist her in her sole distress, METHINKS a Christian's counsels must favor the latter...You have I conclude some turn for the iliary art...Was I in your condition, notwithstanding the many, I had almost said insuperable, objections against sucha resolution, I think the more extensive Seervice woulld be my choice."<BR/>Hale had folowed the news, reports and rumors (appropriate to your initial aticle) and went up to Cambridge to see for himelf what this Siege of Boston was all about (and we might suggest) chase down any inaccuracies reported.<BR/>We know this teachers fate. His friend, Tallmadge joined the Sheldon's Horse, which eventually became the II'd Con'l Dragoons, ran the Culper spy ring out of York, held Major John Andre prisoner after Arnold's defection and participated in most of the major battles with Washington.<BR/>They were both, but, most likely, but a couple of teachers of yore.<BR/>While I'm on my high horse over all this, I'll go a bit further on the role academics and simple people of 'the word' have played in our HISTORY.<BR/>Henry Knox, a Boston boy and bookstore owner was Washington's artilery office. He never fired a gun in his life. But he studied all he could find on the subject and brought artillery to the role of tactical, beyond just supportive.<BR/>But in the 1960's not only were deferments granted to teachers, professors and the, otherwise fit, jock-impaired (football knee), but eductional loans (grants) were easiily obtained for a mere year or two of teaching (nice and noble thought, but certainly beat VA benefits with the 'V' status. It guranteed the pursuit of higher education- - (Higher than what still baffles me.)<BR/>What is it about the truth that has some (some) of these educators so programmed with the fear of reality?<BR/>Took a bit of license with yur space here, Maggie, but some people in our history deserve out homage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10193821.post-33940459758569168222007-04-03T08:47:00.000-05:002007-04-03T08:47:00.000-05:00TOM!!!!!TOM!!!!!BostonMaggiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17298341600851300309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10193821.post-64874298918083574882007-04-03T04:22:00.000-05:002007-04-03T04:22:00.000-05:00even when history teachers covered the crusades an...even when history teachers covered the crusades and the holocaust in the nineties, they did it with caution, and quickly brushed over it. history teachers are like producers of a low rated TV show, they must worry about offending their core audience while making their product more bland for mass consumption. I had a history professor at Montana State who referred to Hitler as a "problematic" person because to say he and Stalin and Franco were murderous dictators might be offensive to one of the three hundred people in the room.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com