Where is Revere when we need him?

 

Last night Paul Revere left Charleston to warn villagers about the British Army on a maneuver to find the cannons stolen a few weeks before in Boston.

Well, not the real Paul Revere. And if truth be known the real one didn't finish the trip. William Dawes and Samuel Prescott finished the job. 

The 2025 reenactment is taking place as I write this on the 250th anniversary when the people of Lexington and Concord said, "enough is enough" of taxes and rule no one wanted.   

Years ago I was a cub reporter for the Lawrence Eagle Tribune. My assignment was to take the photo of the doctor who won the honor of being that year's Paul Revere. The paper had bought me a Minolta camera because the regular cameras were too heavy for 89-pound me to hold without getting a photo with movement. 

The doctor was polite, but when I got back to the paper, my editor Fred Cole told me the doctor had called furious that he wasted his time because the paper sent a 12-year old child with a Brownie camera to take his photo. 

The next day the photo I took was on the top half of the front page. The doctor called asking for copies. 

My editor said yes then all copies, the contact sheet and negatives went into the trash. "No one insults my staff," he said.

Because it's the 250 anniversary, the National Park Service has planned a huge reenactment of the events.

At the same time there are demonstrations planned around the country to fight against the Trump danger to the country that those farmers and shop keepers started. If we had asked them they probably would have no idea that what they were creating was a form of government that had never existed on the planet. 

The danger today is not a few Lobsterbacks as the British soldiers were called nor a king who only cared about his own power instead of his people. The danger is Trump, his cohorts, billionaires, businessmen who put temporary profit and their own wealth above everything else. 

The population of the Colonies in 1775 was an estimated 2.1 million give or take. Today the U.S. population is over 340 million. On April 5th over 500 demonstrations were held in the U.S. April 19, 2025 more demonstrations are planned. 

The two resistances are important if the Americans want to continue as a country and not revert back to the type of government that caused the citizens of Lexington and Concord to risk their lives. Hopefully if enough is done now, it won't come to that.