Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey known as for People to proceed the combat for liberty as she spoke at a remembrance of the Battle of Harmony and the beginning of the Revolutionary Battle Saturday, saying “our freedoms are as soon as once more below assault.”
Healey was one of many audio system on the ceremony held at Previous North Bridge, the location of the Battle of Harmony 250 years in the past. Earlier within the morning, a daybreak salute was held the place muskets and cannons have been fired. Saturday’s ceremony took half halfway via a parade, marking the 250 years for the reason that battle.
The Harmony battle reenactment occurred shortly after the Battle of Lexington reenactment earlier within the morning. After the British clashed with Minutemen in Lexington 250 years in the past, they marched on to Harmony, the place they aimed to seize the colonists’ ammunition provide.
Among the many dignitaries on the ceremony have been Healey, Rep. Lori Trahan and British Consul Normal to New England David Clay  Â
“In Massachusetts, we now have all the time lit the beacon”
“In Massachusetts, we now have all the time lit the beacon. We have all the time answered the alarm. We have now all the time stood our floor and we all the time will,” mentioned Healey. “And now’s the time to honor and fulfill that legacy. We dwell in a second when our freedoms are as soon as once more below assault, together with from the best workplace within the land. We see issues that will be acquainted to our revolutionary predecessors: the silencing of critics, the disappearing of individuals from our streets, calls for for unquestioning fealty.”
Healey’s sentiments have been echoed by Trahan, who mentioned the founders knew that the risk to democracy would not come from one other nation.
Trahan: In America, nobody stands above the legislation
“What started right here in Harmony turned the shot heard ‘around the world. It was greater than the beginning of a warfare, it was the start of an concept, that liberty is value defending, that authorities derives its simply powers from the consent of the ruled,” mentioned Trahan, who was met with applause. “Even our founders knew that the best risk to this fragile experiment would not come from overseas, it might come from inside…In America, not one, nobody, irrespective of how loud, rich or how highly effective, stands above the legislation.”
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After Healey and Trahan spoke, a wreath-laying was held to recollect those that fought in Harmony, in addition to the British troopers who have been killed within the battle and are buried in Harmony. Healey and Main Gen. Gary Keefe of the Massachusetts Nationwide Guard positioned one wreath on the Minuteman statue and the second was positioned by Clay on the grave of the British troopers. Following the wreath placement, a volley salute of muskets was carried out from the Previous North Bridge.
