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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I wasn't aware (that I remember) that there was that information out there; I've never looked into that event. Thanks.
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With no certain knowledge of the facts and insufficient curiosity to check, perhaps it would have been better not to comment so didactically?
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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
So you don't think a society pre computers and pre public library on every corner, counts as an oral society? I suspect people were trained to remember messages exactly, as it was an important part of the culture. *We* can't remember lines today, simply because it isn't an important part of our culture.
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Exactly. And even more so, as the report of his last words was by one soldier to another soldier for whom it was critical to be able to report messages accurately.
I'll add some random theorizing of my own in that those who were to be executed, especially publicly, in a case with a lot of notoriety and where the cause was so important, planned out their last words. They didn't extemporize at the last minute. Hale would have wanted his speech to be memorable and to count.