Happy Patriots Day!

[ubet]

236 years ago today, the most famous shot in American History was taken' "the shot that was heard around the world". Colonial America stood up to the English Empire and refused to surrender their weapons. The birth of the greatest nation in the world took place. So I ask, as you go about your lives today, stop for one minute and think of the approx 8 killed, and 10 injured by the time the conflict at Lexington Green was through.

God Bless America, ecspecially her troops!

 

[brutus1776]

Re: Happy Patriots Day!

back at you brother...

more events on this day throughout history:

abraham lincoln on the same day in 1861, while sending troops through baltimore in order to invade south carolina, were met by protestors on pratt street in baltimore while transferring to another rail hub. the troops fired on the crowd and the first casualties of the war occurred. lincoln blockaded the south on the same day.

in 1943 on april 19th, a band of freedom fighters in the warsaw ghetto defended themselves, with a few liberated rifles and pistols and improvised explosives, against a full assault of the nazi wehrmacht.

april 19 1976 Executive Order 9066 is rescinded. the order that put over 100,000 american citizens in gulags during world war 2.

on april 19th 1993, janet reno and the US government began the final assault on a church in waco texas killing 76. over twenty children and 2 pregnant women.

1995 on the same day timothy mcveigh bombed the murrah federal building in a misguided and horrible attempt at retaliation for the massacre at waco 2 years earlier

 

[ubet]

Re: Happy Patriots Day!

Did not know all that brutus! Thanks for sharing.