This Day in History, Lexington Green, the "shot heard round the world."

various | 4/19/07 | various

[goodnesswins]

Please don’t even think that I was thinking that “all teachers are ignorant.” However, because I live on the LEFT coast (Seattle area) our schools curriculum are many times very wacky. Did your school participate in the “Day of Silence” or whatever it was recently?

[Paige]

We have a moment of silence every morning after the pledge.

[DMZFrank]

“And the birth of the Greatest Nation in history of mankind”.

And the catalyst for it all was an exercise in GUN CONTROL by the British authorities.

[William Tell]

cotton1706 said: "I was working from memory on that last stanza."

I have considered committing it to memory. I think it rivals the Gettysburg Address for being clear and succinct.