He jumped in his buggy
And stepped on the gas,
The bottom fell out
And he fell on his britches.
(From way back in my fourth grade, 70 years ago)
I heard about Paul Revere back in grade school, as most others here on F/R. I’m guessing if he is mentioned at all in today’s schools, it’s not in a complementary way.
Being from Detroit, I also heard of the rock musician Paul Revere and the raiders. I think he’s distantly related to the historic Paul, in the way singer Pat Boone is related to Daniel Boone.
As patriots I do not think it is a coincidence that on this date the Mueller report is distributed and we can begin to dismantle this deep state debacle. Unleash the dogs on these corrupt Dems.
Oh, I remember it , like it was yesterday..../S
(That was to Grandmother's House, right?)
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;
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.”
You know, this is a little off-topic, but what amazes me was that back then there were no highways or road signs. You traversed over the countryside before abruptly hitting some people and then a village. Just how in the Hell did the colonists get around and know where they were at back then?
April 18 in ‘75.
Oh, I remember it just fine. I was a 2-digit midget with 40 and a wake-up...
Sadly, when it comes to April and years ending in 75, I think of our shameful abandonment of South Vietnam.
(Which, strangely, seems like territory being gradually retaken, decades later.)
-- "Concord Hymn," Ralph Waldo Emerson
April 19, 1775
Forget Paul Revere. Check out 16 year old Sybil Luddington. What that young lady did was nothing short of amazing.