[fugazi]

100 years before his son died on Okinawa, Buckner Sr. was teaching at West Point. He resigned from the USMA and joined the 6th Infantry Regiment to fight in the Mexican-American War. He later served in the Civil War as a Confederate general. He spent several months as a prisoner of war after surrendering his army at Fort Donnelson (Tenn.) until being exchanged for a Union general.

Buckner Sr. is the first Confederate general to surrender an army and will be one of the last. Buckner Jr. is born in 1886 and was personally granted an appointment to West Point (on his father's request) by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt.

Incidentally, Buckner Sr.'s childhood friend was Union general Thomas J. Wood, whom he faced in the Battles of Perryville (Ala.) and Chickamagua (Ga.)

[rktman]

And to this day, Mass. defends your right to keep and bear............oh. Sorry.

[DiogenesLamp]

1775: An expedition of 700 British regulars under the command of Lt. Col. Frances Smith departs Boston to seize and destroy military stores of the Massachusetts Militia in Concord. At dawn, 70 militia members led by Capt. John Parker meet the British at Lexington, and the two sides briefly skirmish. The Americans withdraw and regroup, attacking the redcoats again at North Bridge with a much larger force, forcing the British to turn back towards Boston.

The American Revolution has begun.

Those slave owning Americans should not have been allowed to secede from the United Kingdom because slavery is evil. First thing they did was to engage in armed insurrection against their Union.

[Bigg Red]

We visited the Lexington and Concord battlefields last September. Wonderful experience. I highly recommend it.

[EEGator]

Do Waco & Oklahoma City count?

[gcraig]

1960 first flight of the Intruder. What an awesome aircraft that was.

[Polynikes]

The Revolution almost touched off in Salem in February of ‘75. The British backed down for time being but a Miss Sarah Tarrant almost got it going again with her mouth after a trooper pointed a musket at her. Paraphrasing now in modern parlance “You don't scare us MF’er pull the trigger if you got the balls which you don't “

Cooler heads prevailed and the Brits withdrew. http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2009/04/sarah-tarrant.html
https://historicipswich.org/2014/07/05/leslies-retreat-or-how-the-revolutionary-war-almost-began-in-salem/