H/T and deepest thanks to Don’t mind me for reminding me of this day and other hijinks.
8 thoughts on “Celebrate the day, April 19, 1775. We took on tyranny in our Founding Fathers time. Our Lexington & Concord is yet to be determined.”
I imagine the Founding Fathers look upon Lexington & Concord MA now and just shake their head in disgust.
Safe streets, good schools, good health care, good wages. I guess it depends on your definitions of freedom and tyranny.
You obviously steer clear of W. Roxbury, Mattapan etc too.
I self-deported in 1990. Had enough of taxes, the Kennedys, Dukakis, restrictions on rights & liberals in general. Boston has (or had) decent music venues and Concerts on the Common were always a favorite of ours. Miss a good lobster roll & fried clams though.
True. It’s all about which trade-offs you can live with.
They wrote Arms because we had rifles (to snipe from behind trees and stone fences), not just muskets for massed fire from formations in the open. We fought like the Indians did during the French and Indian war barely 15 years before.
And Arms included cannon to arm ships to use Letters of Marque and Reprisal.
In 1972 we lived in Concord MA and the Concord Independent Battery came out on Patriot’s Day to fire a dawn salute. concordbattery.org
Those patriots must spinning in their graves to see what Commichusetts has become.
I live in these parts.
Not a word of April 19 anywere in the news.
I imagine the Founding Fathers look upon Lexington & Concord MA now and just shake their head in disgust.
Safe streets, good schools, good health care, good wages. I guess it depends on your definitions of freedom and tyranny.
You obviously steer clear of W. Roxbury, Mattapan etc too.
I self-deported in 1990. Had enough of taxes, the Kennedys, Dukakis, restrictions on rights & liberals in general. Boston has (or had) decent music venues and Concerts on the Common were always a favorite of ours. Miss a good lobster roll & fried clams though.
True. It’s all about which trade-offs you can live with.
They wrote Arms because we had rifles (to snipe from behind trees and stone fences), not just muskets for massed fire from formations in the open. We fought like the Indians did during the French and Indian war barely 15 years before.
And Arms included cannon to arm ships to use Letters of Marque and Reprisal.
In 1972 we lived in Concord MA and the Concord Independent Battery came out on Patriot’s Day to fire a dawn salute. concordbattery.org
Those patriots must spinning in their graves to see what Commichusetts has become.
I live in these parts.
Not a word of April 19 anywere in the news.
Waco and Okc as well