April 21, 2014

A Charlie Brown Patriots’ Day

If you watched the ESPN broadcast of the game between the Orioles and the Red Sox, you saw a fitting tribute to victims and heroes of the 2013 Patriots’ Day bombing, and to the resilience of the City of Boston. Watching it, however, I came away with the feeling that anyone outside of Massachusetts might think that Patriots’ day was invented to run the marathon and play a baseball game at 11 AM.

So let me bring Linus on stage to remind us why this is a holiday:

“Stand your ground; don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”

It is the day of the tipping point, the day a group of colonies started down the path to independence

2 thoughts on “A Charlie Brown Patriots’ Day

  1. Tom

    Nice. But is that from Concord and Lexington? Bunker Hill? I could google it, but it’s too late at night…

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