Subject:  American Minute - Sept. 22 - Nathan Hale
Date:  Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:30:54 -0500
American Minute with Bill Federer

September 22

  "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" were
the last words of 21-year-old American patriot Nathan Hale, who was
hanged by the British without a trial on SEPTEMBER 22, 1776.

A Yale graduate, he almost became a Christian minister, as his
brother Enoch did, but instead became a teacher at Union Grammar
School.

Nathan Hale fought in the siege of Boston, capturing a boat of
provisions from under the gun of a British man-of-war.

After the British left Boston for New York, General Washington was
desperate for information. Hale volunteered to penetrate the British
line at Long Island, but was captured upon return.

General Howe ordered him to be hanged the next morning.

Hale wrote a letter to his mother and brother, but the British
destroyed them, not wanting it known a man could die with such
firmness. He asked for a Bible, but was refused.

Nathan Hale was marched out and hanged from an apple-tree in
Rutgers's orchard, near the present streets of East Broadway and
Market in New York City.

His nephew, well-known author Edward Everett Hale, wrote:

"We are God's children, you and I, and we have our duties...Thank God
I come from men who are not afraid in battle."



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