Really? I knew it, having learned it from my father and then having read the original letter. All of my children knew it, having learned it from me. Governor Palin is on a tour of our history, probably using that tour among other reasons to teach her own daughter the full history of our country from the source documents and original sites. What I found surprising was that no journalist or editor knew even that little bit of our history and spoke up to stifle the reflexive anti-Sarah attack.
Ignorance of our history is a sadly common failing, especially among liberals, but I am not willing to assume that same failing in someone who "got lucky" and might have been expected based on circumstances to have known.
I HAD known it, but forgot about it. Until I searched the internet. Something I imagine they have been doing as they travel to each destination. “Okay Piper - you look up “Old North Church” and I’ll look up “The Battle of Lexington”.
And you know the media would have played “gotcha” if she had said “He lit the lanterns, and then rode out yelling “The British are coming.”