By Mark Alexander, Patriot Post, November 7, 2025
Millions of Veterans have paid the heavy price of sustaining American Liberty for 250 years.
We have celebrated some remarkable 250th anniversaries this year.
In the spring of 1775, civil discontent with royal rulers was growing, and American Patriots in Massachusetts and other colonies were preparing to cast off their masters.
On 23 March, we observed the anniversary of Patrick Henry’s impassioned “Give me Liberty or give me death” speech, which captured the spirit of the coming revolution in defense of American Liberty.
The anniversary of the first Patriots’ Day was 19 April. The battles of Lexington and Concord, on which our quest for Liberty was launched, were among the 10 most critical engagements of the Revolutionary War.
That opening salvo 250 years ago was immortalized by poet Ralph Waldo Emerson as “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World.”
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