Posted on 04/18/2020 7:50:10 AM PDT by Ozguy1945
What are the great lessons from Paul Revere's ride for us today as we face a health care crisis which we call a war?
Is Donald Trump giving a wake-up call, as Paul Revere did with his midnight ride, in his willingness to try to get people back to work and buck the international trend of governments emphasizing "safety" and locking down?
Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
Too many people are afraid of horses today. And the dark.
And you need a govt. approved agency to follow the horse and scoop up all it’s dropping.
Paul Revere doesn’t have a N-95 mask so he can’t ride.
Paul Revere shouldn’t be allowed to ride. Warning the people in the countryside of an impending invasion is “nonessential.”
Israel Bissell, a 23-year-old postal rider when the war broke out on April 19, 1775, rode day and night with little sleep during an exhausting 345-mile journey from Boston’s western edge to Philadelphia. On the first leg, he rode one horse so hard that the animal collapsed and died beneath him as he arrived in Worcester, roughly two hours after leaving Watertown.
Revere (and freeper correct me if Im wrong), barely got 2 miles and got captured by the Brits.
So to honor the "True Riding Patriot", here's to you Izzy!
Here a ditty about Israel Bissell
A goy who rode out as fast as a missle
He went farther than Revere and stayed on course.
Rode so fast he blew out a horse!
Then got another one and rode even more
Blistered and beaten and all saddle sored.
While good old Paul caught 2 miles and briefly detained
Went back to bed, and thats his claim to fame.
Good old Izzy never thought of his self-ah-a.
Rode 245 miles and 3 days to Philadelphia!
Poor Izzy lost to history and time
Cuz Longfellow couldn't think of a word to rhyme.
~ Bommer
Anti-semitism?
He wasnt a jew. Longfellow made Revere more of a legend then he deserved. When Revere died, there was no mention of his ride at all. Longfellow made all that crap up in 1860, after a visit to the Ole’ North Church. Paul barely got 2 miles into his ride, when he was busted and released by the Redcoats. So as to the Spirit, to paraphrase the line in ‘The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence’ , “When the Spirit becomes truth, fictionalize the Spirit!”. 150 years from now, children will be reading books on how Rambo rescued POW’s and how Det. John Mclane save the world and never got true recognition.
Always keep in mind that the actual number of people with anything even remotely like BALLS was and is TINY. If the guys with BALLS win then everyone acts like they had and have BALLS and the cause of the guys with BALLS is internalized and is called patriotic. If the guys with BALLS do not prevail they are sneered at and called “asshole” and everyone is glad they are not them.
Thanks.
As I recall, Revere never finished the ride. Samuel Dawes did, but his name didn’t fit in the poem.
I could have this wrong as it was over 40 years ago that I read it.
Per the History channel website
While every schoolchild knows of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, Dawes made an even more daring gallop out of Boston that same April night in 1775. Unlike his silversmith counterpart, he managed to evade capture by the British. Yet it’s Revere’s immortal name that has graced a famous ode, a line of copper cookware and even a kitschy 1960s rock band. Dawes, meanwhile, is the Rodney Dangerfield of the American Revolution, getting no respect at all.
Don’t tread on me is so last century. If the government says no church, then no church. No business, then no business. “Progressives” are deliriously happy. Don’t just tread, but have your way.
I can commend your cartoon as TRUE! I’m not saying it’s good, just that it is the truth.
You can however actually give blame to “someone”.
The MEDIA!!!!!!!
Both Revere & Dawes successfully made the journey from Boston to Lexington ( approx. 14 mi ) and warned John Hancock & Sam Adams that British troops were on the march to arrest them and then continue on to Concord to destroy a stockpile of powder and musket balls. Revere was captured and released by the Kings troops when he was on his way to Concord. Dawes was thrown from his horse and Samuel Prescott completed his ride to Concord signalling the alarm.
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