Another ditty from the calendar:
Paul Revere and William Dawes rode from Boston through the Massachusetts countryside and were joined by Samuel Prescot. Together they alerted the Minutemen that the British were marching on Lexington and Concord. The Minutemen were farmers and tradesmen who were prepared to grab their muskets and leave their work and families with little warning.The need to be prepared to fight at a moment's notice earned these patriots the title "Minutemen".
Minutemen and Freepers(some no longer aboard) have had something in common. Keyboard or musket, choose your weapon.
The funny thing about the founders is that one of their first acts when drafting the new constitution was to out the "militia" under governement control to fight future "minutemen" bent on revolution.