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...first U.S. Army chaplain, appointed under an act of Congress in 1791, was General Washington's good friend the Rev. John Hurt of Virginia, "a fearless man and an ardent patriot." By an act of the Continental Congress in 1775, to which the Army Chaplains' Corps now traces its origin, he had served as a chaplain throughout the Revolution...
Last week Patriot Hurt's lineal descendant, Brigadier General Luther Deck Miller, Army Chief of Chaplains, took the occasion of the 170th anniversary of the Chaplains' Corps to report these facts & figures about men of the cloth in World...
Patrick Henry's home, "Red Hill" in Virginia, was taken over by the Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation for $60,000, in a settlement of the estate of the patriot's great-granddaughter, Mrs. Matthew Bland Harrison...
There was nothing noble about John Wilkes, who was turned into a patriot by his own rashness, and into a hero by his enemies' folly. As he confessed, he was not himself a "Wilkite," not a republican -though he grew, with time, into a true champion of liberty and progress. But the case transcended the man.* It became one of those symbolic agitations that arouse a whole people who have been brooding over their wrongs to a furious defense of their rights...
...lawyer, he went to Moscow University's Jurisprudence School, changed his mind after graduating, became a monk instead. A bishop since 1913, Alexei became Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod in 1933 during the church's dark days. Ten years later he gained fame as a great Soviet patriot and received the Defense of Leningrad Medal for refusing to leave the besieged city...