I Want to Stop Him, But...
“These are the times that try men’s souls”, wrote Thomas Paine in “The American Crisis”, December 19, 1776. That same week, General George Washington and his depleted band of ill-clothed, ill-fed, demoralized and freezing cold troops were encamped on the banks of the Delaware River just a few miles from where I write this. In such bleak circumstances, eleven thousand of his dispirited troops had quit and gone home to be fed and warmed by their families. The meager remainde