Show j I I I I II I I The New Sp Spirit rit Of Patriots Patriot's Day DayA A new spirit will mark this years year's celebration of ot Patriots Patriot's day The rhe old feeling against Great Britain our old time enemy has has' van van van-hed hed today American and British soldiers fight shoulder to shoulder In this last and greatest war for the freedom of ot the world The first battle In the struggle of the American colonies for liberty was fought on April 19 1775 and the an anniversary anniversary anniversary an- an has long been observed as a holiday by the people of Massachusetts and Maine The story of ot the ride of Paul Revere and of the minute men who opposed the existing authority and so brought on the conflict at Lexington Lexington Lex Lex- ington and the fight at Concord will be beI retold today in thousands of ot American schoolrooms but without the least feeling leeling against those who once ruled us Early on the morning of ot the fateful day a British column commanded by byI Major Pitcairn came upon a a. company compan of minute men drawn up on the LexI LexIngton Lex- Lex I ington village green The minute men II were commanded by John Parker who had fought with Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham Pitcairn ordered the men mento mento mento to disperse and when they refused he I ordered his men to fire The soldiers hesitated for after all they were En- En I men of their own blood I whom they were asked to slay Pitcairn Pitcairn Pitcairn Pit- Pit cairn discharged his own pistol the shot that was was vas heard around the world i and a again aln ordered his men to fire This I i time they obeyed and laid seven of ot the minute men dead and ten wounded I I upon the village green Before the day dayi i 1 was over the war was on In grim g I earnest and at Lexington and ConI Concord Concord Con Con- I cord the Americans lost 93 53 and the British men The wounds Inflicted I I by this war lasted for tor many years but forever healed they have now been |