Swamp Fox Memorial Needed

Posted By Blackfive

I first read about Francis Marion when I was 10 years old.  I used to spend a lot of time in my public library and stumbled across a book about Francis Marion.  I was intrigued by our Revolutionary War and was interested in places I had never been before - Chicago is a long, long way from the rivers and swamps of South Carolina.  While my childhood friends worshiped athletes and rock stars, the Swamp Fox quickly became one of my heroes.  Perhaps you could credit Francis Marion with my interest in becoming an "irregular" soldier...

Sometimes our childhood heroes have a way letting us down as we grow older and, hopefully, wiser.  Not so with the Swamp Fox.  General Marion will always be one of my heroes.

W. Thomas Smith Jr. has an article in Town Hall about a proposed memorial for General Francis Marion in Washington, D.C.:

As a boy riding in the family car down an oak-lined dirt road leading to my uncle’s summer house on South Carolina’s Santee River, I remember standing in the back-seat floorboard as Dad – who was driving – waved his free hand toward shadows in the dark woods. “Francis Marion used to gallop down this same highway,” Dad would say, giving me a wink. “Yep, it was just a trail then. Those ol’ redcoats would be hot after him, but they never could ketch ‘im.”...

Read the whole article.  When the proposal is ready, I'll let you know how we can help get a statue/memorial of Francis Marion in the capitol of the country that he helped defend...

Appropriately, a Special Forces Soldier using the psuedonym of Francis Marion has a blog titled "Where I stand".

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Swamp Fox Memorial Needed

I first read about Francis Marion when I was 10 years old.  I used to spend a lot of time in my public library and stumbled across a book about Francis Marion.  I was intrigued by our Revolutionary War and was interested in places I had never been before - Chicago is a long, long way from the rivers and swamps of South Carolina.  While my childhood friends worshiped athletes and rock stars, the Swamp Fox quickly became one of my heroes.  Perhaps you could credit Francis Marion with my interest in becoming an "irregular" soldier...

Sometimes our childhood heroes have a way letting us down as we grow older and, hopefully, wiser.  Not so with the Swamp Fox.  General Marion will always be one of my heroes.

W. Thomas Smith Jr. has an article in Town Hall about a proposed memorial for General Francis Marion in Washington, D.C.:

As a boy riding in the family car down an oak-lined dirt road leading to my uncle’s summer house on South Carolina’s Santee River, I remember standing in the back-seat floorboard as Dad – who was driving – waved his free hand toward shadows in the dark woods. “Francis Marion used to gallop down this same highway,” Dad would say, giving me a wink. “Yep, it was just a trail then. Those ol’ redcoats would be hot after him, but they never could ketch ‘im.”...

Read the whole article.  When the proposal is ready, I'll let you know how we can help get a statue/memorial of Francis Marion in the capitol of the country that he helped defend...

Appropriately, a Special Forces Soldier using the psuedonym of Francis Marion has a blog titled "Where I stand".

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