Monday

 

This Monday is Patriots’ or Patriot’s Day in Massachusetts and Maine.

It remembers the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 during the American Revolution (the “Shot Heard Around the World.”)

I had never heard of Patriots’ Day until I went to College in Massachusetts. 

Maine only celebrates it because it was part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and then the Commonwealth/State of Massachusetts until the Missouri Compromise in 1820.

The Boston Marathon is always held on Patriots’ Day.

This year is the 10^th Anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombing in which 3 People died and 281 were wounded in the Terrorist Attack.

Note: Patriot Day is a National Holiday which remembers the September 11, 2001 Attacks.