For Veteran’s Day, a reminder of the citizens who resisted the depredations of a hostile army.

On the placid green expanse of the Commons in Lexington, Mass stands a small monument to the armed defenders who formed a defensive line against the advancing British Army.

In April of 1775, while the British Navy blocked Boston Harbor, British troops began to move from the city to suppress rebellion in the surrounding towns and villages.

Paul Revere made his famous night-time ride to rouse the citizenry.

At Lexington and Concord, armed resistance against the British army was made by local militias formed into defensive lines.

It was the first deadly encounter of what became eight long years of war for independence.

There is a statue of a colonial soldier also erected nearby, but I like the Yankee simplicity of this plain marker.

The defenders of the town who died in combat are buried beneath the Green.

This postcard photograph was mailed from Boston in July of 1910.

The writer was at the train station, waiting to depart for Portland (Maine).

Addressed to Miss Katherine Weaver of Philadelphia, the postcard was probably received the next day.

Neither the photographer nor the publisher is identified.

It is an appropriate reminder of Veteran’s Day.