[Kartographer]

[Blood of Tyrants]

Those that forget (or never knew) history are doomed to repeat it.

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[Ramius]

I stood on that bridge and I heard the shot. It’s spooky, and inspiring.

[rlmorel]

I live close to the bridge, and I took this picture five years ago:

The morning I took this picture was at the end of February, and it was a bitter cold, windy day. It was a big day, I was going live with a new system I had been working for a couple of years to implement. I had got home at 0300, and slept until 0930 to head back in. Rush hour traffic was over and the road was pretty empty, and I decided to take the scenic route into work instead of taking Route 2 in. As I came up to where the bridge was, I realized the road had been shut down because the bridge carrying traffic was under repair. As I turned around, I realized where I was, and uncharactristically got out.

There wasn't a soul anywhere, not a sound of a car...only the blustery wind of the kind that brought tears to the eyes.

It was stunningly beautiful. Now that I think of it, I took the day off today, and am going to head over there now, actually...:)

[prisoner6]

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[prisoner6]

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[43north]

“In a 2009 survey by The American Revolution Center, 83% failed a basic test on America’s founding.”

I bet they’d ace a test on LGBT issues...

[DuncanWaring]

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[DJ MacWoW]

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[Sherman Logan]

Americans again face an occupation – not foreign troops and their mercenary allies, but a foreign ideology. This dogma isn't just contemptuous of liberty (in ways that make the Hanoverian dynasty seem benign by comparison), but determined to demolish 3,000 years of Judeo-Christian civilization on its way to creating an anthill society. At least George III was a Christian monarch.

Actually, the Hanoverian dynasty was pretty darn benign by any standard. Had the Revolution failed we might have ended up as a really large Canada or Australia. There are certainly much worse fates.

Of course, Canada and Oz turned out as they did very largely because the Brits looked back at what happened here and realized they never wanted to do that again.

The determination that America must declare its Independence was based primarily on the notion that King and Parliament were involved in a conscious conspiracy to enslave Americans.

Problem is that we have the records of Cabinet meetings and such, and there quite simply was no such plan or intent. The British government's actions with regard to America, at least before the fighting broke out, were much more the result of not paying attention than of evil intent.

They underestimated Americans, thinking of us as the overseas equivalent of their own lower classes. But there was no real malevolence there.