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« on: November 02, 2004, 07:46:34 PM » |
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I've just recently come across three (unrelated) men, all of whom from the short biographies I've read on or about them, were very well liked by virtually everyone.
Daniel Boone - staked out claims in then wild Kentucky and Missouri, during the revolutionary days, a fierce fighter. Was liked and admired by everyone. Seen out hunting, alone, at age 82.
Marquis de Lafayette - a foreigner, French, from very wealthy family, arrived America at age 20, with a ship and fighting crew of his own, offering it and his services in the Revolution effort here. Gen. Washington appointed him a major general in the Rev'y Army (but w/o pay) !! He was known as the "boy general". He also fought in France's revolution, was captured, five years imprisoned, forfeitiing his wealth and property. Married at age 16. When he returned to visit U.S. forty years later, in 1824, expected in NY harbour to have to locate his own hotel accomodations. But crowds waiting for him! No one had forgotten. Congress granted him thousands of acres, and a sizable cash grant. Some in Congress argued vociferously that Lafayette was no different from any other Minute Man, should therefore not be favored. But it all passed easily. He was well liked, like Boone, it seems, everywhere he went, here in U.S.
Will Rogers - humorist and popular radio host and newpaper columnist in 1930s; noted for his statment, "I never met a man I didn't like".
What made these men so "likable"? How could Will Rogers say something like that? None was, as far as I know, particularly noted for a 'faith', or 'religous faith'.
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