Which, in turn, means it is time for my annual tradition of pointing out to someone that there are countless sources for the lives of the signers and what they sacrificed. So while Snopes is all well and good, I do not find them to be the final authority on everything. I'll trust the numerous scholarly accounts I can easily find, and if to some that means I am living in ignorance under a romanic illusion of the cost of declaring freedom, then so be it.
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