Battle of Lexington & Concord, 250th Anniversary

The 250th Anniversary of "The Shot Heard 'round The World" is upon us. Any plans you have to celebrate The Battle of Lexington and Concord? This is a bucket list item for me and I plan to be there, celebrating the many kinfolk who took part that day.

There were many precusror events to the American Revolution but this is the event where the die was cast. If July 4, 1776 was the birth of our nation, this was the conception.

Below is a link and an excerpt about the “Powder Alarm” that happened about 6 months prior to Concord & Lexington, and one of the things to set the stage.

https://www.davekopel.org/2A/LawRev/american-revolution-against-british-gun-control.html

Excerpt:

Before dawn on September 1, 1774, 260 of Gage’s Redcoats sailed up the Mystic River and seized hundreds of barrels of powder from the Charlestown powder house.

The “Powder Alarm,” as it became known, was a serious provocation. By the end of the day, 20,000 militiamen had mobilized and started marching towards Boston. In Connecticut and Western Massachusetts, rumors quickly spread that the Powder Alarm had actually involved fighting in the streets of Boston. More accurate reports reached the militia companies before that militia reached Boston, and so the war did not begin in September. The message, though, was unmistakable: If the British used violence to seize arms or powder, the Americans would treat that violent seizure as an act of war, and would fight. And that is exactly what happened several months later, on April 19, 1775.

Five days after the Powder Alarm, on September 6, the militia of the towns of Worcester County assembled on the Worcester Common. Backed by the formidable array, the Worcester Convention took over the reins of government, and ordered the resignations of all militia officers, who had received their commissions from the Royal Governor. The officers promptly resigned and then received new commissions from the Worcester Convention.

That same day, the people of Suffolk County (which includes Boston) assembled and adopted the Suffolk Resolves. The 19-point Resolves complained about the Powder Alarm, and then took control of the local militia away from the Royal Governor (by replacing the Governor’s appointed officers with officers elected by the militia) and resolved to engage in group practice with arms at least weekly.

The First Continental Congress, which had just assembled in Philadelphia, unanimously endorsed the Suffolk Resolves and urged all the other colonies to send supplies to help the Bostonians.

Ben Franklin reading the first draft of the Declaration of Independence: . . . "and the purfuit of happineff"

Stan Freberg Presents the United States of American, Volume 1
https://www.garynorth.com/public/1380.cfm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOOQfGWt8Hc
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Same 1960s era:
Vaughn Meeder's The First Family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUU1Op9ouBQ
Camp Granada (Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh) (Allan Sherman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XVdgcxDXjo
Peter and the Commissar (Allan Sherman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9tnOWAillk

Sigh. I always felt bad for Vaughn Meader. He had a thing. He was on top of the world, it seemed like everyone had a copy of that record. We had one, we all loved it.

PRESIDENT KENNEDY: Mr. Chiang Kai Shek?

CHIANG KAI-SHEK: A Club Sandwich would be fine. thank you so much.

PRESIDENT KENNEDY: Would you like it with a little mayo?

CHIANG KAI-SHEK: Please! Not to mention that name!

Then Kennedy was assassinated. And that was pretty much it for him.

NIXON: Well, sir...I think that two million is much too much...however, I do think the residual benefits derived from the benefits would more than compensate, sir, for the original outlay of funds.

PRESIDENT KENNEDY: I see. Mr. Rusk, what do you think?

RUSK: Well, Sir, I do not go along with Mr. Nixon. The residual benefits are beside the point. It's a dangerous move.

JOHNSON: I'd like to say something if I might!

PRESIDENT KENNEDY: Must you, Lyndon?

If this was comedy back then, I guess it is no wonder LBJ had him shot. (Only kidding. Kind of.)

DiogenesLamp: "The American war of Independence was a time when a collection of slave owning states seceded from a Union, Declared Independence, and formed a confederacy."

You know perfectly well that is complete nonsense because in fact:

Our Founders only declared independence more than a year after the Brits declared, and began waging, war against us.
Slavery was imposed on the American colonies by British law, and most of our Founders opposed it.
Thomas Jefferson even wrote a condemnation of slavery into his Declaration of Independence.

DiogenesLamp: "They appointed a slave owning General from Virginia to lead their armies against the Union, while the Union offered freedom to their slaves."

And, yet again:

George Washington opposed slavery in theory and supported abolition wherever possible.
During the Revolutionary War, Washington matched the British offer of freedom for slaves who served in the Continental Army.
Those African Americans served in integrated units under Washington.
At the Battle of Yorktown, black soldiers were observed to make up about one in four of Washington's army.

DiogenesLamp: "Those evil people seceded over slavery."

If anything, our Founders seceded to abolish slavery.

DiogenesLamp: "The American war of Independence was a time when a collection of slave owning states seceded from a Union, Declared Independence, and formed a confederacy."

You know perfectly well that is complete nonsense because in fact:

Well what particular fact did I get wrong? Were they *NOT* slave owning states? My recollection is that they were. Did they not secede from a Union? (United Kingdom) It seems that they did. Did they *NOT* form a Confederacy? (Articles of Confederation)

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