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Article: Their sacred honor: every signer of the Declaration of Independence pledged his life, fortune, and sacred honor. Many sacrificed greatly to fulfill this oath. If their legacy is to live on, we must do the same.(HISTORY--GREATNESS OF THE FOUNDERS)
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- The New American
- Article date:
- June 27, 2005
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Caesar Rodney was weary when he reached his plantation near Dover on the night of July 1, 1776. An outspoken advocate of American independence. Rodney was exhausted from many months of battling Delaware's Tories while building up and drilling the colony's militia. The 47-year-old son of a plantation owner, he was first elected to the colonial legislature in 1761, and sent to the First and Second Continental Congresses. Caesar Rodney was also afflicted with a painful and unsightly facial cancer. So terribly was he ravaged by the disease that he wore a green silk scarf over part of his face, and was described by one colleague as "an animated skeleton, with a bandaged head." ...
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...According to DOD: Caesar Rodney School District., Candem Del., was awarded on Mar. 16, 2009, a $7,432,338 firm fixed price contract for the provision ...
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