Evacuation Day

The holiday, celebrated each March 17 in the city of Boston and three other local municipalities, commemorates the day in 1776 when the British redcoats ended their occupation of Boston. By some happy coincidence, March 17 happens to be Saint Patrick's Day. How fortuitous that Suffolk County, a region which has a large percentage of citizens of Irish descent, was able to find an event which just happened to coincide with the day of celebration of Irish culture.

Evacuation Day, as a historical event, is not of the same caliber as Patriot's Day or Bunker Hill Day. Those holidays commemorate the battles of the American Revolution fought here and serve to remind both us and the nation of Massachusetts' role in freeing the United States from British rule. Evacuation Day merely marks the day that the rump of the British contingency evacuated this region.

But there is merit for a holiday on March 17. More than a holiday for the Irish, it could be an Immigrants' Day. It would remind all Americans of the struggles and successes of their ancestors and serve to offer lessons for new groups of immigrants arriving to our nation.

How can you possibly compare these new 'arrivals ' to the immigrants who came here to assimilate and join . New arrivals or invaders can't stand us or our counrty's culture .

Very few come here today to join but some do and have to suffer same tyranny the nationals do. Why change something that worked better than any other nation on earth. Not pervect, just best. granny

They need to come back and occupy boston.

So would it be around this day that alot of people who didn't support the revolution where hunted down and murdered?

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hugs

lilnymph