There’s some massive irony here. North Hero is just north of Valcour Island where Benedict Arnold commanded the first American naval fleet. The British won the September 1776 engagements on Lake Champlain, but the Americans gave a fierce fight at Valcour Island. The British had been forced to assemble their fleet at the north end of the lake throughout the summer of 1776,
The battle season was getting late as the first snow began to fall on October 20 and Carleton’s supply line would be difficult to manage in winter, so Carleton decided to withdraw north to winter quarters; Arnold’s plan of delay had succeeded. — the British could not reach the Hudson River in 1776 and split the colonies.
The 1777 British campaign, led by General John Burgoyne, was halted by Continental forces, led with vigor by General Arnold, in the Battles of Saratoga. Burgoyne’s subsequent surrender paved the way for the entry of France into the war as an American ally.
So the commie Sanders is defiling a sacred US battle site that led to our nation’s independence and freedom from British subjugation. The bastard who would subjugate all of us if given half a chance is on hallowed American soil that gave us freedom through the sacrifice of many great Americans fighting on Lake Champlain in ‘76.
I hope commie Sanders rots in hell real soon.
Sanders didn’t mean to offend; he will be closer to that socialist paradise to the north (Canada) - Montreal is the closest big city to North Hero.