I was honored to speak at last evening’s Veterans Day ham & bean supper at the Legion Hall.
Great food, great fellowship, great Veterans. I was able to use Sophia’s art work from the school’s earlier program and breakfast.
The ham and bean supper was sponsored by the Hooker Historical Society. Much of what is missing in our world today is history. This group works to keep our part of history alive.
Permit me to share this about some early veterans.
Isaac Davis was Captain of the Acton Minutemen, a well trained group of 40 men. They were first on the bridge that April morning in 1775. Capt. Davis famously said, “I haven’t a man who is afraid to go.”
In the first British volley, Capt Davis was hit in his heart and died instantly. He and his wife Hannah had four children, and as he left the house earlier that morning, she recalled feeling, “like I would never see him alive again.”
It was that “shot heard ’round the world.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Cherish your Veterans
Photos courtesy of Sheila Blankenship
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