Reflecting on Veteran's Day and Fighting for Freedom

In the wee morning hours between April 18th and 19th in 1775, midnight riders like Paul Revere, Dr. Samuel Prescott, and William Dawes roused Massachusetts men and boys to get out of their beds with an intent to face a deadly enemy. They gathered their powder horns, and muskets, and shot and went out to Lexington Green. There they waited for the dreaded British troops who marched methodically toward Lexington. British colonial governor, Gen. Thomas Gage, had dispatched a contingent of approximately 700 British regulars to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington. These troops had marched from Boston and were not only sent to arrest Adams and Hancock, but also to seize a reported cache of gunpowder, ammunition, and weapons near Concord. The rest was history--the Land of the Free was brought into fruition.