Today's American Minute — When Youth Were Patriots: 21-year-old Nathan Hale "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country!"
When Youth Were Patriots: 21-year-old Nathan Hale "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country!"- American Minute with Bill Federer
The Essex Journal stated of Nathan Hale, February 13, 1777: "At the gallows, he made a sensible and spirited speech; among other things, told them they were shedding the blood of the innocent, and that if he had ten thousand lives, he would lay them all down, if called to it, in defense of his injured, bleeding Country."