What is it that excites us about the story of Lexington and Concord? For one thing, it offers a living, vivid adventure tale of absorbing human interest. The aspects of startling alarm, of violent emotion, of strenuous action, of critical decision, and of grave emergency converted the entire route form Boston to Concord and back into a drama that can hardly be excelled

Again, here is a story of heroism. In our modern, cynical outlook, we might ask mockingly, "whatever that means?" These farmers had no need to enquire for a meaning. To them, heroism was not a pretense, not a boast, not a pose. It was an elementary fact. Their deeds verified it in term that were simple enough. It meant to serve, to suffer, and to die; and all this, they did.

So too, for the British. Training had given them discipline, and character gave them determination; but heroism demanded more. Under desperate trials here, they exhibited superb fortitude and heroic endurance - only men of the sturdiest fiber and steadiest courage could have conducted such a retreat as they carried out.

Finally, the story is one of patriotism, in a sense that surpasses any current definition; in fact, when we read of what these people sacrificed, what they dared, and what they accomplished, we must ask ourselves whether we know, today, the true significance of the word. It was not simply the patriotism of the individuals, nor of families, but of communities at large, of the people as a whole. Let us acknowledge the fact: there is nothing in our generation to compare with this. These were, and they remain, the real PATRIOTS.

from the forward by the author

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