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Child Abuse Prevention Month
“New Mexico is a wonderful place to raise a family…but sometimes life can be hard and being a mom or a dad can be difficult. Our children should never have to pay the price.”
Congresswoman Heather Wilson
April is Child Abuse Prevention month. New Mexicans can take certain steps to contribute in the prevention of child abuse. Meeting the needs of abused and neglected children takes more than good intentions… it takes action, money, time and talent. Here are some things you can do. |
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| April 19 marks the 226th anniversary one of the most important events in US history. Do you know what that event was? |
The shot heard around the world!
On April 19, 1775, British and American soldiers exchanged fire in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord. On the night of April 18, the royal governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, commanded by King George III to suppress the rebellious Americans, had ordered 700 British soldiers, under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith and Marine Major John Pitcairn, to seize the colonists` military stores in Concord, some 20 miles west of Boston.
A system of signals and word-of-mouth communication set up by the colonists was effective in forewarning American volunteer militia men of the approach of the British troops. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow`s poem "Paul Revere`s Ride" tells how a lantern was displayed in the steeple of Christ Church on the night of April 18, 1775 as a signal to Paul Revere and others.
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex, village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.
At Lexington Green, the British were met by 77 American Minute Men led by John Parker . At the North Bridge in Concord, the British were confronted again, this time by 300 to 400 armed colonists, and were forced to march back to Boston with the Americans firing on them all the way. By the end of the day, the colonists were singing "Yankee Doodle" and the American Revolution had begun. |
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