Somewhere out there, I want to believe there are Minutemen watching over us, saying among themselves "It was worth it. They remember."
Here's to John Hancock! Here's to Samuel Adams! Here's to Joseph Warren! Here's to William Dawes! Here's to PAUL REVERE!
Here's to a bunch of farmers and brewers and shopowners who looked down the barrel of an overpowering force and into the face of tyranny and said NO! Not one step more! This is where we stand!
Sorry to all of our international Yarders but this is America, land of defiant pride, land of courage and resourcefulness, land of Revere, land of Washington, land of Franklin and land of Lincoln!
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By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set to-day a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare,
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
Concord Hymn, by Ralph Waldo Emerson
