I’ve had so much fun on the Forum the past year, and have learned so much from all of you, that I’d like to pass this along as a little Christmas gift.
This time of year, my thoughts always turn back 200 plus years to December 1776, when the American Revolution seemed to be on it’s last legs, and then on Christmas General George Washington and his men counterattacked at Trenton, New Jersey, won the victory the Americans HAD to have, and saved the Revolution. Saved us all when you think about it.
So, I’d like to pass on a poem written for the Bicentennial in 1976 by an Irishman named Sean McCarthy, a member of the “Wolf Tones” singing group. It’s called…
A Dream of Liberty
One night as the wind whispered eerie tales, and the stars danced to and fro I dreamt of a land where our forefathers trod in those times of long ago. In Boston harbor I saw brave men, and I watched with a dutiful pride As they scattered the tea in a tax-laden sea with a dark and an angry tide. &nb