Shusu / Liondragon (shusu) wrote in mcucanonfodder, @ 2008-04-30 00:01:00 |
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themarysue.com - Glen Tickle: History of the Term "Winter Soldier" & wizzard890: Real Winter Soldier
http://www.themarysue.com/winter-soldie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_So
http://www.ushistory.org/paine/crisis/
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 their 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 conflict, 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 put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.
- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 23rd December 1776
A winter soldier is someone who will warm their hands over a meager fire and weather the cold. Someone who refuses to abandon their country and its potential, no matter what the personal cost.