On the Eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five

In honor of our forefathers, and an anniversary worth remembering, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Paul Revere’s Ride.

If you haven’t read it lately, take a moment to read it again. It’s worth recalling that the very birth of this nation was a close-run thing. We have much to be thankful for.



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