To equate Palin’s characterization of the events with what actually happened is akin to believing Anthony Weiner’s explanations.
True: He being the riders and militia.
By ringing those bells and making sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed.
True: Bells and warning shots rang out in the wake of the patriot riders.
True: Our arms, our freedoms, out livelihoods, or possessions, our households and our goods were going to be secure. No more seizures! WE WERE GOING TO BE FREE! And damn well right we were going to make that all true by force of arms.
Now to you, diogenes ghost: What do you say abut Longfellow? Did our dear early national poet laureate ALSO get the facts wrong? Or in poetic sense were they right?