"Duty is ours, consequences are God's."
Attributed to Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
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The story
Thomas Jackson was a physics professor at the Virginia Military Institute before he was a general. He was an odd, intense, deeply religious man. He prayed constantly, kept the Sabbath strictly, and taught a Sunday school in Lexington, Virginia.
He got the name "Stonewall" in 1861 at First Manassas, when another officer pointed to Jackson's men holding their ground under fire. People who served with him said the calm came from his faith. He believed his job was to do his duty, and that the results belonged to God.
He fought for the Confederacy, and that cause doesn't get a pass here. What we're digging up is the saying: a simple split between what is ours to carry and what isn't.
Why we wear it
A lot of us freeze up because we can't see how a hard choice will turn out. This split takes a load off your shoulders. Your part is to do the right thing in front of you. The outcome was never yours to control. Wear it when you're tempted to skip the hard right thing because you can't see the ending.
About the band
- Durable silicone wristband
- Quote wraps around the band, with the Fossil Words ammonite seal in the middle
- Images are design previews. The finished band may differ slightly.
Fossil Words digs up words etched in the stone of time: words that lived in the actions of the people who spoke them.