New York Times Staffer: Seeing ‘Dozens Of American Flags’ Over The Weekend Was ‘Disturbing’ [More]
The things that make snowflakes melt. Funny, though, how not all flags have that effect...
That said, you'd have never known what day the white guys in the trucks were commemorating if you relied on Google Doodles...
[Via Michael G]
4 comments:
More link is self-referential.
Link:
https://thefederalist.com/2021/06/08/new-york-times-staffer-seeing-dozens-of-american-flags-over-the-weekend-was-disturbing/
In a way, she's right about us "forgetting our history", just not in the way she she means it.
Our country didn't start in 1776, or in 1619. It started in the 1750's when the leadership of the British Empire lost its connection with their North American subjects. Lost is perhaps not the right word. "Disdainfully tossed in the trash" is probably a closer fit. By the morning of April 19, 1775, the relationship was in such a horrid state that some 3000 formerly loyal British subjects ran, some of them for miles, so as not to miss a chance to open fire on the troops of their own government.
Over the next eight years, the mostly rank amateurs, loosely known as The Continental Army, defeated the foremost military machine then in existence.
When is the last time you saw any government celebrate April 19? Should it be any wonder why many, including the New York Times, would be just fine with us forgetting that part of our history?
Mark Twain is quoted to have said, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
Do you think Rep. Eric Swalwell wants us thinking about history rhyming once again?
Anonymous wrote:
"When is the last time you saw any government celebrate April 19?"
Having lived in Massachusetts, I can say every single year there.
It is important to remember that both the Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony were privately funded enterprises that required returns on the investment to the investors. Half a century later the colonies were merged and the governorship shifted from local election to British Crown appointment, a move that was vigorously opposed locally. The local militias were funded locally, not by the colonial government. More than a century after startup of these colonies, armed conflict with France in North America required British military presence. Government imposed funding for these troops (and fleet) was opposed locally. There is no free, especially from government. When the Massachusetts Governor attempted to use British troops in Boston to seize locally owned military supplies through use of force, the locals objected. Even a month later, when local landowner Elisha Leavitt offered up hay from one of the islands in Boston Harbor to feed the British Army horses, locals objected. See the Grape Island Straw Alarm following.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Leavitt
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