My wife loves calendars; they are all over the house. There’s one in our bathroom that I look at most mornings, and I’m frequently amazed by the number of holidays listed. Yes, some of those holidays are for other nations, like Boxing Day or Anzac Day. Others are days of recognition, like the resolutions that just passed the U.S. Senate designation “National Water Week”, “World Quantum Day”, and even “Rare Disease Day”. But when I looked at the calendar for today, April 19, 2024, you know what I found? Nothing. No holiday or remembrance for one of the most important days in American history, the battles of Lexington and Concord. Today, We, the People, should remember this day in our history and look at how what we may learn can impact our lives today.
Today, April 19, 2024, is the 249th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. Yet these events that changed the history not only of this continent but also of the world will most likely go unnoticed, unheralded, and unsung. Why is that? Is it because our government schools don’t want to teach about a time when everyday ordinary people stood up to a government that was coming to take their rights? Is it because the American people have become so used to servitude and corruption they won’t even bother to remember a time when We, the People, stood up against it? Or can it be that we have become so attached to the bribes D.C. keeps sending us that we are willing to sell our birthright of freedom for the chains of subjects?
Yes, there was a time when a neighbor took up arms to defend the rights of their neighbors. Today, it’s almost impossible to get neighbors to vote for anything other than the best bribes from Washington, D.C. Have the American people fallen to the humiliating degradation of no longer being allowed to govern themselves? Perhaps a return to the battles that started our War of Independence will shock us out of our stupor and renew the sacred fire of liberty in our hearts.
https://constitutionstudy.com/2019/01/11/the-battle-of-athens-tn
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