Captain Parker didn't go to Lexington Green planning to start a war that morning, but that's what happened. There were quite a few sparks before that didn't quite light the fire until that day. Events like the powder alarm.
One of the things that made the revolutionary war possible was the large number of veterans from the French Indian War.
Today we have a government that is seemingly hell bent on alienating a demographic of men that spent a chunk of their late teens and twenties kicking down doors half away around the world over the past two decades. And many of them frankly have better kit in their homes today than they were issued 15 years ago...
Nobody wants to be first, but if it's a clear case of self-defense they will spark a movement.
Captain Parker didn't go to Lexington Green planning to start a war that morning, but that's what happened. There were quite a few sparks before that didn't quite light the fire until that day. Events like the powder alarm.
One of the things that made the revolutionary war possible was the large number of veterans from the French Indian War.
Today we have a government that is seemingly hell bent on alienating a demographic of men that spent a chunk of their late teens and twenties kicking down doors half away around the world over the past two decades. And many of them frankly have better kit in their homes today than they were issued 15 years ago...