What is the point that Thomas Paine is trying to make in this page?

War and fighting are very hard times. People that fight our wars over the years have suffered during battle and then suffer it over and over again throughout their lives. The longer you are in battle the more difficult it becomes to fight. That is why now they rotate troops so that one person isn't in the thick of it for a very long time. A summer soldier would be a person that has fought but for a short time(a summertime) and is ready to quit and a sunshine patriot is a person that is patriotic only when times are good(the sunshine is out). Paine says these are times that try men's souls. So it is a very hard time and he says that those that stay and fight deserves the thanks of every person they are fighting for. Tyranny per Websters is oppression, cruelty severity, etc and also I recall from movie The Last Mohican. . absolutism. Paine says tyranny is not easily conquered so they fight the good fight to rid the colonists from the tyranny of England. And the consolation or comfort one should get from the how hard the conflict is that the harder it is the better the victory will be. . .freedom will be glorious.