WHAT IS BRAVERY?

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won't be long before you're reading an e-mail telling you all about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence.

Trouble is, much of the information flying around the Internet isn't reliable. Just ask Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, suspended last year by his bosses for a column on the signers, the gist of which had been zipping around on the Internet.

So, for the record, here's a portrait of the men who pledged "our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor" for liberty 225 years ago:

FOR THE SACRED SELFLESS ACT......THERE WAS A PRICE,BET U DID NOT KNOW THAT.....NOW U DO., SO THIS WEEKEND REFLECT ON WHAT IT TAKES TO BE BRAVE.

Would have been much easier to accept that 2% tax like Canada did. Right?

Then WWI happened and dead Canadian draftees were stacked like cordwood by British generals.