Memorial Day and I'm in the place where the revolution started, the most Old World of all American cities, Boston. It wasn't Americans against British - it was a clash of two world views; working and middle class against ruling class and old privilege. I would've fought and died against the redcoats, without once feeling I was betraying the countries of my forefathers. Ironically, those red-coated soldiers were as much victims of the abuses of the powerbrokers as the men they killed and were killed by. And surely the revolution here succeeded because of simple geography - the same sentiments were present in Scotland and Ireland but they were too close to England to be allowed similar success.
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