Subj : re: the American Traditio
To   : Moondog
From : Kaelon
Date : Wed May 04 2022 11:01 am

  Re: re: the American Traditio
  By: Moondog to Kaelon on Wed May 04 2022 12:40 am

 > Everyone is familiar with the poem about the ride of Paul Revere, however
 > the events in real life didn't work out as told.  He wasn't the only
 > messenger - they had redundant riders.  Considering the people with subjects
 > of the king, yelling the British are coming would make little sense.  Revere
 > was caught
 > and interrogated, and told them everything because events were already in
 > motion.  The officer took his horse and left him to be guarded.  His escape
 > was less than spectacular.  The guards wandered off and didn't take him with
 > them.

While this particular tangent I am about to convey probably belongs best in DOVE-Net Entertainment, I can't help myself because it's relevant.  In the TV series, "Turn," there is such an interesting contrast between the sanitized version of the American Revolutionary events that school children are taught, and the actual ruthlessness and intelligence operation undertaken by Continental forces under Washington.

I feel that the public should be educated broadly on both the fundamentals of American History - what Benjamin Franklin described of 'Americans' as being a "rougher, simpler, more violent, more enterprising, less refined" people. He concluded that "we were a new nationality, and thus required a new nation."  The freedom guaranteed only by arms is at the heart of what made our pioneering colonial forefathers truly independent in nationality and sovereignty.
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