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Regretted not having more than one life to lose for his country. that thought alone has carried his name into the ranks of unashamed patriot. the story of nathan hale is not a required study in most schools today. he's just another of history's boring white guys, not cynical enough for today's america. too bad. as he was one of those men who make history worth a second look. blond and blue-quied, he grew up in coventry, connecticut, the son of a farmer. he graduated from yale and left a job teaching school to join up with the cause. by spring of 1776, the war had taken a nasty turn for the reb...

>> there's a place on manhattan's east side where i walk every day, often lingering to read the plaque on a building just up from a very hip starbucks. it reads, nathan hale, legendary 21-year-old hero of the revolutionary war was hanged as an american spy on sunday, september 22nd, 1776. probably within 100 yards of here. frankly, there's a brief instinct to look around for a ghost, to imagine that brutal moment of our revolutionary past, so memorable was captain hale's death, at least three other locations claim to be the site of the hanging, including the yale club in midtown. but british d...