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#49 THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION
My grandson and I read about King George, Paul Revere, and the Swamp Fox. Then I looked up from the children’s books and saw the old American fight staring straight back at us.
This piece began with my eight-year-old grandson Arnold and a stack of children’s books about the American Revolution.
We read about King George and George Washington, Paul Revere and the Swamp Fox, Lafayette and the colonies, patriots and loyalists, liberty and rebellion. We read the stories we hand down to children—the brave ride, the righteous cause, the birth of a nation.
But as I sat there with Arnold, in South…
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