"Don't fire unless fired upon.......

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Subject: Remember this?
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:25:37 -0400
From: Jacob B Griffin jb21@juno.com
To: apfn@apfn.org

Does anyone remember Lexington-Concord? Maybe it is left behind because
there are so many British Grenadiers in Washington.

June Grififn

>From THE GLORY OF AMERICA CALENDAR by Peter Marshall, Jr. and David
Manual.
"At dawn on this morning in 1775, some seventy Minutemen were assembled
on Lexington's green. As the drummer boy beat the call to arms, they
formed into a rough line. No one spoke. Some readied powder and ball,
others cleaned muskets which didn't need cleaning. All eyes kept
returning to where the road from Boston opened onto the green, all ears
strained to hear the drums and double-march of the approaching British
Grenadiers.

Waving to the boy to cease his beat, their captain, John Parker, gave his
fateful command. "Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they want to have
a war, let it begin here!" (Bo ston Globe, Bicentennial Edition, March 9,
1975, 39.71.

... The principle, "Don't fire unless fired upon," can be traced back to our
nation's founding, but its roots go even further to Christian "Just War" ...
http://www.hoosierreview.com/claybourn_files/claybourn19.html

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APRIL 19, 2005 - GUN CLEANING DAY!!!!