Veteran's Letter-Sullivan

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Question 1

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• What were your initial reactions to the letter? How did it make you feel?

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Question 2

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• Why do you think Sullivan Ballou wrote this letter?

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Question 3

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• If you were Sullivan’s wife or children, how would you have reacted to this letter?

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• Sullivan says that he is perfectly willing to die to pay the debt owed to those who fell in the American Revolution. What does he mean by this?

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• What debt, if any, do you feel contemporary America owes Sullivan Ballou and other soldiers like him?