The American Revolution, Another Watch

Good morning, Substack, and happy Tuesday. We had a frost warning last night and as we write this it's 28 degrees out there. 

We had a sudden gout attack yesterday evening. The left ankle just seized up. No idea why. 

War of the ants...yesterday we saw nary an ant, alive or dead. We did intercept their comms though, 'Is there anybody out there? Anybody at all?' 

On Substack we're muting and blocking the retards. Oh look, there's another one. 

Today is Yom Hazikaron. 

As it happens Sunday was the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington Concord. The battle happened the way reader(s) think it happened. The Lexington militia confronted the British column. The Brits opened fire and scattered them and then marched to the arms depot, which they torched. When the Brits encountered minor resistance at Concord, they figured 'Mission Accomplished' and turned around. And that's when the Minutemen marched to the sound of the guns and inflicted frightful losses upon the Redcoats. By evening thousands of Minutemen had assembled outside of Boston. 

We know of two good movies about the Battle of Lexington/Concord. 

The first is Johnny Tremain, an adaptation of Esther Forbes' book. Very 1950s, very Disney. 

The second is April Morning, a 1988 adaptation of Howard Fast's novel. Chad Lowe stars as Adam Cooper, a teenage boy from Lexington. The morning of the battle Adam wakes up a boy, immature and somewhat resentful of his strict father, Moses. Adam loses his father in the initial skirmish and joins the militia. By that evening he's a combat veteran, a reluctant killer, and man of the house. 

April Morning has a heck of a supporting cast. Tommy Lee Jones  plays Adam's father. This was Jones under appreciated character actor era. Robert Urich plays a mentor and Minuteman. Rip Torn plays a grizzled veteran of the French and Indian War and militia commander Solomon Chandler. The lovely Meredith Salenger is Ruth, Adam's love interest. 

Doge Report.

We're editing the set-up chapter and battle of Nueva Segovia chapters of World War 1990: the Managua Campaign. We began work on the follow on chapter, in which Pan American forces advance out of the Choluteca Gap into Nicaragua.