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John Hancock

The events of 9/11 remind us that outside attacks have always brought Americans together.

When one of the wealthiest men in the Colonies sided with the Patriot cause, he was called a “wretched and plundered tool of the Boston rebels.”
Like Abou Ben Adhem, his name led all the rest.

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