BATTLE OF LEXINGTON · BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL · WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE · SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE · “I HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO FIGHT”--JOHN PAUL JONES · THE BIRTH OF THE FLAG Words wear out after using them a thousand or a million times. “Liberty,” “The Constitution,” “The People’s Government,”--people take those terms into their minds nowadays as they take a chocolate cream, without stopping to think of its contents. So with “Revolution.” When we hear the word we feel a pleased sensation of a good, great, glorious time, intended by Providence to prepare the way for our various patriotic organizations. The Revolution? Why, yes, that was when our forefathers tied the …
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