Happy Patriot's Day!
"Disperse, You Rebels! Damn You! Throw Down Your Arms and Disperse!" British Major John Pitcairn's futile order to the American Patriots at Lexington, April 19th, 1775
Last night, April 18th, marks the 230th anniversary of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride.
Today, April 19th, the 230th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. A date, which, while never a national holiday, was long celebrated througout New England as Patriot's Day.
Unfortunately, it is also the anniversary of the Waco Murders, and of the bombing of the Murtaugh Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City.
Because of that, people who wish to celebrate April 19th as Patriot's Day are frequently suspected by the government of being dangerous right-wing radicals, or dismissed by the liberal media as kooks.
So be it.
"You Know The Rest. In The Books You Have Read,
How The British Regulars Fired And Fled,
How The Farmers Gave Them Ball For Ball,
From Behind Each Fence And Barnyard Wall,
Chasing The Redcoats Down The Land,
Then Crossing The Fields To Emerge Again
Under The Trees At The Turn Of The Road,
And Only Pausing To Fire And Load."
THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I got to pick up my Glock 19 today!! What a great day indeed. I took it home, read the manual, figured out how to field-strip it, marveled at the interior parts, gasped at how fingerprint-resistant the metal surfaces are, and then put it away and went back to work. Here's a pic of it in its official Glock case: