Don't change.
Posted on 04/18/2015 4:24:33 PM PDT by Paisan
240 years ago, tonight, an American Patriot, Paul Revere, threw aside all misgivings about his own personal safety and freedoms, and embarked upon a most famous undertaking...
LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. 5 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; 10 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.’
Lexington is BAD, LOL. Concord might be a little better.
A visit to this most holy of shrines
Agreed.
If you know your history, you cannot help that your eyes will well up with tears as you stand where the Minute Men stood, and contemplate that you are ‘Standing Your Ground’ against the mighty British Empire.
This is what I feel every time I am there.
The indications are that it won’t be happening anytime soon.
Laugh-out-loud funny!
Here’s to those more innocent times!
Today, you’d be sent to a *re-education diversity* camp.
They are still trying to find me to send to to one of those.
I have managed to elude capture for over a half century.
I agree with you completely.
There are a few places that do this to me...The North Bridge, Gettysburg, Pearl Harbor, Jerusalem.
This account by Charles Kuralt, late of CBS News, always puts me into the mood.
Timeless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is2KksjeEJg
at about 12:00 minutes.
At about 7:30 is the best part.
Piss in someone else’s punch.
Geez. Get over yourself. New England, and the Northeast produced some of the best of this Great Nation. The Civil War is over. Give due, where it is due.
Why should ignore a claim that Massachusetts is “ The rest of the state is just as traditional and Conservative as any other place in the country” without correcting it?
Don't change.
Absolutely my favorite day in history. Bloody Angle! The White Horseman, Capt. Isaac Davis, Maj. Loammi Baldwin, the yeoman’s work of Paul Revere, the Old Men of Menotomy ... the list goes on.
Ride Paul, ride
And countless other riders who set out after hearing the call. But that does not diminish all the work Revere did that night and the next day. Revere, “the Mercury of the Revolution.”
I visit family in Salem and train into Boston, couple times a year.
I walk the Freedom Trail with reverence. Each stop makes me marvel that this group unique people were able to confront and defeat what was then the strongest country in the western world. Unique? Sail makers and feather merchants? Shop keepers and farmers?
The leaders who rose to the challenges like John Hancock, James Otis and Sam Adams were learned and skilled. The Revolution took each of the gifts of all the founding fathers and their faith in the Divine to create the US that is so intent on denigrating and dismantling their work and their gift to us.
When I stand at the site of the Massacre in the middle of modern Boston, I am so sad that the people bustling by have forgotten what happened and have turned their backs on it.
Credit IS due to THOSE fella’s. However, I do think YOU should easily slip off that “high horse” of yours. For instance, the good ol boys down SOUTH (Mecklenburg County, North Carolina) declared their Independence before the collective 13 States. Were you aware my lad ?
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Description: Site of monument to signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, May 20, 1775, and homesite of John McNitt Alexander, secretary of the committee that drew the Mecklenburg Declaration and the Mecklenburg Resolves before the American Revolution
Nobody knows about it anymore.
the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, May 20, 1775
Sure, but this was a month AFTER the Minute Men of Massachusetts shunned pen and paper and backed up their resolves with bullets.
I know what you are feeling when you say American Shrine.
I have not visited North Bridge but I have visited St. John's church in Richmond, Virginia. There is a feeling that comes over me with the realization that I am standing on the very same timbers that Patrick Henry stood on during the Virginia Convention. It gives meaning to the words Hallowed ground.
I suspect you get the same feeling standing on the same spot where the founders' war for an independent America began.
May God bless America.
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