What is Alcoholism

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Fearless
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Many alcoholics end up drunk again because the are to afraid to do a 4th and 5th step. Those of us who have done those steps know that our fears were mostly products of our own mind and that what we did was not that big of a deal in reality.
You want fearless think of these men:

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

They were fearless How many of us could act with the courage and resolve that they did?
I am forever grateful to these men and so many others that followed them. May God bless their souls.
Posted on 07/04/09, 01:07 am
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Reply #1 - 07/04/09  1:26am
" Fearless!

Texas:
Julia Christine aka Dreamingtree "
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Reply #2 - 07/04/09  7:49am
" I am grateful too Reed. I feel the best way to honor their memory is with "eternal viglance" as they asked.
I also feel we've collectively failed that task. Read about the governmental structure they set up and compare to ours and see what you think. "
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Reply #3 - 07/04/09  10:10am
" Lol Julie! Go you! :)

NOW I get it....Hall County, Gwinnett County, Walton County! DUH!!! What a goober! hee hee... "

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