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To: Neeka who wrote (483586)	4/20/2012 4:05:40 AM
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Thanks Neeka! This in honor of Patriots everywhere who have fought for our freedom....I've found two families of my relatives who had milita fighting here on April 19, 1775,,,,,This article was written last year, so add one more year to their number below.....237 years ago....in the timeline of the earth, this was yesterday....we have much and many to remember for their sacrifices..... TWE Remembers: The Battle of Lexington and Concord by James M. Lindsay April 19, 2011 Daniel Chester French's Minuteman Statue in Concord, MA. (Detroit Publishing Company/courtesy the Library of Congress) Two hundred and thirty-six years ago today, the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at Lexington and Concord. Ralph Waldo Emerson captured the significance of that day in a poem he wrote for the July 4, 1837 ceremony dedicating the new Concord Monument. The poem immortalizing the resistance of the Minutemen to British troops is aptly known as the “ Concord Hymn”: 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. Roughly fifty Minutemen died on April 19, 1775. Their sacrifice changed the course of history.