Posted on 04/18/2019 6:12:59 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
Hardly a man is now alive
that remembers that date and year
of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.
He jumped in his buggy
And stepped on the gas,
The bottom fell out
And he fell on his britches.
(From way back in my fourth grade, 70 years ago)
I heard about Paul Revere back in grade school, as most others here on F/R. I’m guessing if he is mentioned at all in today’s schools, it’s not in a complementary way.
Being from Detroit, I also heard of the rock musician Paul Revere and the raiders. I think he’s distantly related to the historic Paul, in the way singer Pat Boone is related to Daniel Boone.
As patriots I do not think it is a coincidence that on this date the Mueller report is distributed and we can begin to dismantle this deep state debacle. Unleash the dogs on these corrupt Dems.
Oh, I remember it , like it was yesterday..../S
(That was to Grandmother's House, right?)
He said to his friend, “If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch
Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,—
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country-folk to be up and to arm.”
You know, this is a little off-topic, but what amazes me was that back then there were no highways or road signs. You traversed over the countryside before abruptly hitting some people and then a village. Just how in the Hell did the colonists get around and know where they were at back then?
April 18 in ‘75.
Oh, I remember it just fine. I was a 2-digit midget with 40 and a wake-up...
George Washington was a surveyor, and mapped a lot of western Virginia and Ohio.
It was on the basis of these maps of large tracts that land was bought and sold, without having to argue about it.
Sadly, when it comes to April and years ending in 75, I think of our shameful abandonment of South Vietnam.
(Which, strangely, seems like territory being gradually retaken, decades later.)
-- "Concord Hymn," Ralph Waldo Emerson
April 19, 1775
This is old, but...” Come my children & you shall hear
Of the midnight run of Paul Revere
Over the bed & across the floor in
A 100 yard dash to the toilet door”
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(Also, when we think about the significance of April 18th, none of us should ever forget that on April 18, 1025, Bolesław Chrobry was crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.) (In those days, they had to "run threw the stones and the snow to the outhouse door".)
It's also the anniversary of the Doolittle raid on Tokyo in 1942 and the death of Yamamoto Isoroku, the Japanese admiral who orchestrated the Pearl Harbor attack, at the hands of US airmen over Bougainville in 1943.
my father’s birthday 1916
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