Common Sense Society to Honor Mayor, Nears Fundraising Goal
Group needs to raise an additional $40,000 for a statue of Thomas Paine it plans to unveil in Monument Park in November 2012
The Fort Lee Common Sense Society and the Fort Lee VFW will honor Mayor Mark Sokolich with the first annual “Thomas Paine Winter Soldier Award” at a dinner fundraiser in November. The Common Sense Society also hopes to raise a good chunk of the remaining $40,000 it needs to complete funding for a statue of Thomas Paine the group commissioned to be permanently placed in 2012 at the site Paine and the rest of the American Army encamped with General George Washington in 1776—present day Monument Park in Fort Lee. “We’re honoring Paine specifically for his role in Fort Lee,” said Common Sense Society vice chair Tom Meyers. “[Paine began] to write The American Crisis right here in Fort Lee, and anyone who doubts that, read the first few …
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Tom Meyers
11:46 pm on Wednesday, October 5, 2011
This article is about our effort to raise funds and awareness of American patriot Thomas Paine. Thomas Paine lived as an American soldier and war correspondent near present day Monument Park here in Fort Lee in 1776. General Washington when asked what his most effective weapon was int the American Revolution and he answered the quill pen of Thomas Paine. Paine wrote of Fort Lee and his time here … more ›