The "Shot Heard Round the World"

RugerNiner

The "Shot Heard Round the World"

April 19th, 1775

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 today 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.

jimdeere

Today, they’d be called White Supremacist Domestic Terrorists.

dreher

Yup. They would be arrested by homeland security, charged in such a way they would not be able to mount a defense, then imprisoned until old and grey. Ain't this new America great. 😪

Horse Plains Drifter

Too bad there aren't any Americans like that today.