I sent the following email to "Washington". I think its self explanatory:
Dear members of the House and Senate and staff members,
Patriot's Day.
In Massachusetts it's still a major holiday. It doesn't celebrate the Boston Marathon, though the marathon is run on Patriot's Day each year.
Does Patriot's Day mean anything to you?
"On the 18th of April in seventy-five,
Hardly a man is now alive,
Who remembers that famous day of the year,
The midnight ride of ..."
Patriot's Day celebrates the events that truly started the American Revolution. It started with the British decision to march to Concord to confiscate the colonist's powder and arms. Two lights were seen from a church steeple. Seeing them, Paul Revere and others road that night to spread the alarm. Patriots gathered on the common in Lexington, MA ready to risk their lives confronting the British regulars. The fight broke out. Then the British marched to Concord and were confronted at an old bridge. They failed to go further and had a long bloody march back to Boston.
That's what Patriot's Day is in remembrance of.
Many of us in the "tea party" are just common folk who honor the memory of those first patriots by attempting to bring some sense of sanity back to our Federal Government and Nation.
$18 billion in debt (projected for the end of calendar year 2014) and trillion dollar deficits (when you factor in the known increase in interest expense that will occur when interest rates return to normal) are surely signs that some sanity is needed. So as they answered the call on the original patriot's day, some of us are attempting to answer the call today.
Yet we are despised, ridiculed and targeted? For what? Asking our leaders to use common sense and to do what is right.
We're attempting to answer the call, will you?
They Answered the Call: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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