[Paisan]

I spent more than 40 years in Massachusetts. My favorite place to visit, and I visited there quite often, was the North Bridge in Concord. It is, for me, the holiest of American shrines. For it was here that American patriots stood their ground and fired the opening shots of the American Revolution.

[left that other site]

Indeed. I grew up in Massachusetts, and spent many pleasant times on the Freedom Trail and Lexington and Concord.

[FatherofFive]

For it was here that American patriots stood their ground and fired the opening shots of the American Revolution.

And now Massachusetts is leading us to communism

[PapaNew]

Thank you for this post. Inspiring. Hope there’s enough of us aa brave if and when the time comes. Are we still the land of the free? We will only be the land of the free if we are the home of the brave, for freedom always has its enemies, and right now, freedom’s greatest enemy is the huge, powerful, and largely unconstitutional $4 trillion federal government.

We have visited Boston twice and loved seeing the North Church and surroundings, but I didn’t even think of the North Bridge in Concord. I don’t know that much about it, but next time, we’ll have to visit Concord and Lexington.

Thanks again for the reminder of what today commemorates.

[SamAdams76]

I used to live in the area of the North Bridge and I'd drive by it every morning on the way to work (Monument St. in Concord). That is a very nice area. There's also a hiking/bike trail that runs straight into Lexington and there's a semi-hidden connector to the Minuteman bike trail that takes you all the way to Cambridge.

With regard to Paul Revere, many people still have the mistaken impression that he shouted "The British are Coming" during his ride.

Of course, it would have made no sense for Revere to say that because at the time, everybody was British, including Paul Revere himself. Instead, he shouted "The Regulars are Coming" which pertained to the redcoats (British Army).

[abb]

A visit to this most holy of shrines is on my bucket list.

[Adder]

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.

[MosesKnows]

My favorite place to visit

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.