[Political Junkie Too]

My vote goes to Paul Revere. He gave the Americans the most important news, when they needed it the most!

-PJ

[fatnotlazy]

“My vote goes to Paul Revere. He gave the Americans the most important news, when they needed it the most.”

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I heard a few weeks ago that the legend of Paul Revere is bogus. The story apparently is that Revere never made it to Concord. He was arrested by British soldiers a few miles outside Lexington. The soldiers released him, but they kept his horse. Revere had to walk back to Lexington.

Someone else, whose name escapes me, did make it to Concord, but it seems unlikely that he would have yelled, “The British are coming; the British are coming” since the colonists at that time still considered themselves British and they wouldn’t know what he was talking about.

Now, I can’t say this is for real, but this revised version of the story did strike me funny.