National Identity: \ from orator meaning Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 26 min 29 sec
✓ Published: 10-Feb-2012

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It is probably no accident that Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) was a life-long American patriot. He was the nephew of Edward Everett, renowned orator and statesman. And his father, Nathan Hale, was the namesake and nephew of Nathan Hale, executed by the British for espionage during the Revolutionary War and famous for his last words: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”nnAs a Unitarian minister in Boston, as Chaplain in the United States Senate, and as a prolific