Monday, April 19, 2010 — As objective journalists we are prohibited by law and custom from taking sides on any issue. That having been said we confess to harboring the hope that this day will pass without any extraordinary expressions of patriotism from the confused.
Also, we send out a salute across the centuries to Isaiah Thomas, who was once an apprentice to Daniel Fowle‘s peculiar brother Zechariah (See 1775).
2004—A government spokesman reveals that NORAD had run a training exercise based on a hijacked airliner crashing into a building.
1995—RIP 168 souls in Oklahoma City.
1993—For the good of the children, who end up among the 80 dead, the FBI attacks David Koresh’s compound at Waco, Texas.
1971—Officials at Arlington National Cemetery turn away Gold Star Mothers and Vietnam veterans participating in Operation Dewey Canyon III.
1951—In a grandiose fit of mock humility, Gen. Douglas “Dugout Doug” MacArthur tells Congress, “Old soldiers never die,” leaving unspoken the obvious corollary, “that’s what the young ones are for.”
1948—Costa Rica 86s its army.
1943—The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins.
1939—After some study, Connecticut OKs the Bill of Rights.
1877—Birth of Ole Evinrude, inventor of the outboard motor.
1861—The first Federal fatalities of the Civil War: four Union soldiers are stoned to death by a Baltimore mob.
1775—Minutemen and British clash in Lexington. Zechariah Fowle’s former apprentice Isaiah Thomas is there.