Posted on 04/20/2007 11:48:03 AM PDT by BronzePencil
They mustered 232 years ago yesterday in what is now downtown Peabody, rushed south to battle the British soldiers retreating from Concord, and were killed in the most ferocious fighting of that first Patriots Day. Their bodies retrieved by comrades, the four Minutemen were laid to rest at the Old South Burying Ground in long-forgotten locations that now might be covered by a Peabody sidewalk or the asphalt of Washington Street. That anonymity is about to end. Thanks to city and federal officials, the ultimate sacrifices of Samuel Cook Jr., Benjamin Deland Jr., Ebenezer Goldthwaite, and George Southwick Jr. are being commemorated by headstones placed in the cemetery that holds these original patriots.
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with God’s mercy, I’ll be dead by that time to see that happen.
Can you see what would happen if this were happening today.
They would be spinning in their graves to know that America was converted to a democracy and is now lost. Thanks FRS, thanks CFR, thanks IRS, thanks USSC.....
Thanks for the post, BronzePencil. My ancestor, from Danvers, fought at what is now Arlington, perhaps with these Peabody men.
My pleasure.
No, it was spitballs, don’t ya know? (Shades of Zell Miller everyone!) LOL!
It is so sad that we are losing this beautiful country. We steared away from God and now he is going to let us fend for ourselves.
Zell nailed them but good.
As an American, I thank you all from the bottom of my heart. You helped create a “miracle country” the likes of which the world has never seen. And as long as I’m alive, I’ll do everything I can to see that America remains great.
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