The governor of Massachusetts, Maura Healey, asked Americans to continue the struggle for freedom while talking in a memory of the battle of Concord and the beginning of the revolutionary war on Saturday, saying: “Our freedoms are once again under attack.”
Healey was one of the speakers in the hero of the ceremony at Old North Bridge, the site of the Battle of Concord 250 years ago. Early in the morning, a greeting of dawn was a hero where musquets and cannons were shot. Saturday’s ceremony halfway through a paradeMarking the 250 years from the battle.
The recreation of the Battle of Concord took place shortly after the recreation of the Battle of Lexington earlier in the morning. After the British faced Minutemen in Lexington 250 years ago, they marched to Concord, where they intended to capture the supply of ammunition from the settlers.
Among the dignitaries at the ceremony were Healey, the representative Lori Trahan and the British general consul to New England David Clay
“In Massachusetts, we have always turned on the beacon”
“In Massachusetts, we have always turned on the lighthouse. We have always responded to the alarm. We have always maintained our land and we will always do it,” Healey said. “And now is the time to honor and comply with that legacy. We live at a time when our freedoms are again under attack, even from the highest position on Earth. We see things that would be familiar for our revolutionary predecessors of the streets of Silomingor, demands of Fealk disturbing.”
Trahan echoed the feelings of Healey, who said that the founders knew that the threat to democracy would come from another country.
Trahan: In America, no one is above the law
“What began here in Concord became the shot that was heard throughout the world. It was more than the beginning of a war, was the beginning of an idea, that freedom is in which the Government derives its fair powers from the consent of the governed.” Trahaned said. “Likewise, our founders knew that the greatest threat to this fragile experiment abroad, would come from within … In the United States, not one, no one, no matter how strong, rich or how powerful it is above the law.”
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After Healey and Trahan spoke, a crown of Flores was a hero to remind those who fought in Concord, as well as the British soldiers who were killed in the battle and are buried in Concord. Healey and Major General Gary Keef of the Massachusetts National Guard placed a crown in the Minuteman statue and the second was placed by clay in the tomb of the British soldiers. After the placement of the crown, a must of the Mosques volley was made from the Old North Bridge.