April 19 - Today in History "embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard round the world."

Recusant · Apr 19, 2022

Lexington and Concord | Yankee Doodle

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HayesGreener · Apr 19, 2022

The British came to take the Americans' guns.

KI4WTF · Apr 19, 2022

And my wife was born. Well....not in 1775.

Recusant · Apr 19, 2022

HayesGreener said:
The British came to take the Americans' guns.

Yep, the more things change the more they remain the same! Just a different gov't now, but still just ordinary folks standing their ground.

jmcd · Apr 19, 2022

HayesGreener said:
The British came to take the Americans' guns.

Apparently not that much has changed here.

nmedge · Apr 19, 2022

Being brought up in that area I do miss the real "patriots day". Not much colonial stuff happing in New Mexico