“These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it Now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict the more glorius the triumph.”
~Thomas Paine, The Crisis — December 1776

Those ‘testifying’ if you want to call it that-at Winter Soldier II…are not Winter soldiers at all. Those are people who are comparing civilian life with that of a soldier, and complaining about how tough it is.

These are summer soldiers and sunshine patriots…who disappeared and faded away with other anti-war demonstrators while over 100 true patriots–the REAL WINTER SOLDIERS stood outside.