A quote from a real jersey militia man

He shouldered his musket in the days of his youth against a cruel, powerful and unrelenting foe who were wasting, spoiling and destroying his oppressed country; burning her houses and defenseless towns and exposing her helpless citizens to indescribable miseries. He exposed his life and endured the privations of the soldier, the toils of the field and garrison to achieve the independence of these United States. And led on by the immortal Washington and other dauntless heroes through sanguinary trials, he now beholds the fruits of his labor: the freedom of his country from the chains of the tyrant. May kind Heaven preserve his beloved country from the calamities of such another war.

(Pension application of Jonathan Doty Senr. S5356)