Happy thought of the day

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Busting Dopers and finding out that they are illegal

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Originally Posted by Brush Okie

So you are arresting poor innocent people trying to better themselves because they have undocumented medications and they are undocumented voters. How mean of you.

[PSM]

My front yard:

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by PSM

My front yard:

I was going to ask "oil, or water color"... Wow, thanks for sharing that.

[cbtengr]

1740 Sunday afternoon , I love my longer days!

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[Badger52]

Originally Posted by cbtengr

1740 Sunday afternoon , I love my longer days!

That looks more like my AO, lol.

[rsdengler]

Originally Posted by PSM

My front yard:

Awesome Photo....Makes me want to just plop down on my rear and stare at the sky...I need a nice "thinking" spot right about now.....

[PSM]

Originally Posted by Badger52

I was going to ask "oil, or water color".

Android.

Originally Posted by rsdengler

Awesome Photo....Makes me want to just plop down on my rear and stare at the sky...I need a nice "thinking" spot right about now.....

That's what I was doing. I was sitting on the porch steps just watching it change.

Pat

[rsdengler]

Happy Thought of the Day...Ahhhh, just a nice thought of disappearing for awhile. Thinking of planning a short getaway, my sister just moved to Melbourne Florida.

Does anyone here happen to be familiar with that area and could give me some info on things to do around there? You can PM me, no "crank" messages...LOL

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We are laying my Uncle Jim to rest here today in Phoenix, and celebrating his life.

Snapped a picture earlier this morning, and thought it was worth sharing...


Holly

[Gypsy]

Originally Posted by PSM

My front yard:

Sweet picture!

[tonyz]

Padron Anniversario 1926 series and Glenfiddich 18 - a great working lunch combo.

[Box]

...Fakeb00k helped keep hiLLary cLinton out of the white house

[tonyz]

Events leading to the birth of this great nation.

Battles of Lexington and Concord

In April 1775, when British troops are sent to confiscate colonial weapons, they run into an untrained and angry militia. This ragtag army defeats 700 British soldiers and the surprise victory bolsters their confidence for the war ahead.

On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops set off from Boston toward Concord, Massachusetts, in order to seize weapons and ammunition stockpiled there by American colonists. Early the next morning, the British reached Lexington, where approximately 70 minutemen had gathered on the village green. Someone suddenly fired a shot—it’s uncertain which side—and a melee ensued. When the brief clash ended, eight Americans lay dead and at least an equal amount were injured, while one redcoat was wounded. The British continued on to nearby Concord, where that same day they encountered armed resistance from a group of patriots at the town’s North Bridge. Gunfire was exchanged, leaving two colonists and three redcoats dead. Afterward, the British retreated back to Boston, skirmishing with colonial militiamen along the way and suffering a number of casualties; the Revolutionary War had begun. The incident at the North Bridge later was memorialized by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his 1837 poem “Concord Hymn,” whose opening stanza is: “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.”

https://www.history.com/news/ask-his...ound-the-world

The Revolution Begins

The clash began on April 19, 1775 when more about 700 British soldiers were given what they thought were secret orders to destroy colonial military supplies in Concord, Massachusetts. Fortunately, thanks to a rather elaborate colonial intelligence network, led by the Sons of Liberty, the Patriots were aware that their supplies were at risk, and were able to move them to different locations long before the British began to move. Also, thanks to the daring rides of a few brave men, the colonial militia knew that an engagement with the British Army was imminent.

The first shots were fired just after dawn in Lexington, Massachusetts the morning of the 19th, the "Shot Heard Round the World." The colonial militia, a band of 500 men, were outnumbered and initially forced to retreat. The British army was able to press forward to Concord, where they searched for the supplies, only to come up empty handed.

While the British were searching, the American militia was able to reform, and they met the enemy at the North Bridge in Concord, and they were successful this time in driving the British back. As more American reinforcements arrived, they forced the British army south to Boston, and the militias blockaded the narrow land accesses to Charlestown and Boston, starting the Siege of Boston.

The American War for Independence was now in full swing.

https://www.constitutionfacts.com/us...und-the-world/

[EricV]

Go to xxxtube and type in "The Concord Hymn" and you'll be able to hear it sung or recited.

Excellent book on April 19 1775 is "Paul Revere's Ride" by David Hackett Fischer. Goes into what lead up to it and the aftermath.

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 to-day 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.