Randa Abdel-Fattah
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3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
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June 1776.
All these different things had been brewing to make a bad tea joke.
One year into the Revolutionary War, things were not looking good for the newly formed Continental Army.
A guy named George Washington had been put in charge of it, and he was kind of on a losing streak.
You have all these people fighting and dying.
Things were beginning to come to a head.
Washington was stationed in New York, where the British were closing in fast.
Ships were coming in from England, and it was looking as though New York was going to fall.
At a certain point, I suspect, they're sort of saying, OK, remind me again, what are we fighting for?
They needed a rally cry to commit people to see the fight through, come what may.
So in the face of mounting odds and setbacks, some in the Continental Congress decided they needed a declaration of independence.
This is who we are.
This is a laundry list of what you've done.
And I can't be in this relationship anymore.
Over the next month, a declaration was drafted and then announced to the world.
As John Hancock, the president of the Continental Congress, whose signature has become iconic, said at the signing.
We must all hang together.
Benjamin Franklin, who needs no introduction, responded, Yes, indeed, we must all hang together, because otherwise, most assuredly, we'll all hang separately.
A dark joke, because the truth was, if the revolution failed, every single person who signed on could be tried and hanged for treason.
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