Letters;
Dear Elizabeth,
Guide Me
My Dearest Elizabeth,
I need your guidance, my Northern Star. I'm lost and don't know where to turn. Please send me some sort of guidance from your place in Heaven above. It seems I'm loosing our family rapidly. Thomas is dead, but you probably know that by now, as he is likely to be in your arms up in Heaven. What do I do about Gabriel? Our boy is intemperate, idealistic, imprudent… and foolish. Much like I was, regrettably. He's putting our family in danger but, then again, by doing nothing so am I to some extent. What can I do to save our family from deteriorating even further? Please guide me. Your sister Charlotte is also in danger because of us. Gabriel has left to rejoin the Continental Army, and I have a feeling that being involved in this will mean his death. Yet, being in the Continentals gives me a chance to take revenge for the death of Thomas, watch over Gabriel to try as best I can to insure his safety and I will also be in a position to protect my family. Yet in my position to protect them I may also endanger them. What if something else happens and I'm off with Gabriel in the Continentals? What if something happens that I could have stopped but didn't because I wasn't there. He said he thought I was a man of Principles. *I have exactly eight principles…. Well, seven now. I have to protect them if they are in any danger. I failed with Thomas, how can I hope to succeed in protected my other children. Gabriel said he wasn't a child. The hell he isn't! He's my child and he's your child. What if something happens to him? If I go with him I can try to stop it from happening. There's no way to stop him from joining back up. He won't come back, he just won't. I can protect him if I go with him, but if I go with him I can't adequately protect our family. If I stay here I can adequately protect our family but I can't protect Gabriel. I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't. Elizabeth, help me, please. I don't know which path to follow. You always told me to stay the course. I don't know which course to run. Show me which course to take. Before I loose my family anymore. I can't protect Gabriel if I'm here and I can't protect our family adequately if I'm with Gabriel. Perhaps the best way to go is to go where I can do the most. I can still protect our family if I go with Gabriel, just not as well as I would wish, and if I go I can protect Gabriel. Then I can fight this war and help end it in some small measure. I see Elizabeth. I see where to go. Please watch them for me while I'm away; please do for me what I cannot do myself. Thank you Elizabeth, I love you.
Yours Eternally,
Benjamin
*Yes, I know Benjamin Martin only had seven Children and Thomas was killed leaving him with six at that time. I'm including Charlotte.
Seven Children + Charlotte = Eight Principles.
Eight - One Child = Seven principles.
Okay?