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So, we went to Boston

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Enfield1

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I would like to begin by thanking everyone for your responses to my prievious post, “I’m going to Boston”.
We had a great time and it was quite an adventure for us. We hit just about every site that you could fit in in 48 hours.
I am 46 years old. I have graduated from college. I have accepted a commission as an Officer in the United States Army. I have jumped from C130’s at Fort Benning, Ga and roped from helicopters with the 101st at Fort Campbell, KY. I have gotten married.
Nothing I have done in my life has been as moving as standing in the front seating area of Buckman Tavern in Lexington, Mass.
We got there early in the morning and were waiting on the bench when the ladies walked up to open. We were the only ones there and had it to ourselves.
The artifacts in their display, if real, are like a piece of the “true cross” to a devout Christian. They have a musket ball on display that they claim was dug out of a rafter in a house located on the other side of “the green” that was reportedly recovered in the mid 1920s. This was very sobering for me.
It was not as haunting for me, however, as standing by the hearth in the front room by the tables and chairs.
It was deathly quite. It was as if I could hear the distant drums growing louder and the adrenaline of the Patriot Militia, several of them but teenagers, starting to flow as the British Regulars
began to get close to town.
Can you imagine the courage it took to leave the warmth of the fire on that chilly morning and go out to the green when they could have gone home, instead? If that wasn’t courage then I don’t know what is. :hatsoff:
 
I was stationed in Washington D.C. four years,Never see all there was there and in the area around D.C. If you have never been, go see the Changing Of the Guard and at Ft Myers the Sunset Parade.Contact your state rep.and tell them what dates you will be in D.C. and they can get you tickets ,with head of the line and into areas the general public do not go.
 
Glad to hear about your trip.
Of all the awesome things to see and do in Boston I can assure you that you hit the very best place, at the very best time.
I too have been at the tavern early. I like to get there just at dawn. Imagining the feelings racing through the minds of those men who stood in the same place, waiting for the worlds most powerful army to come out the road from Boston. The Lexington Green and Concord bridge are incredibly emotional sites for any American. :hatsoff:
 

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