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A fifteen-year-old doesn't understand his father. Nor does his father understand him. They always seem to be at odds. It is April 19, 1775, and Adam Coooper is about to find his world changing. There is talk of the British bringing an army to their town of Lexington but rumors abound until that is the redcoats really appear.
Adam watches his father shot as the redcoats fire on the men of the town who had hoped to talk first and reason it all out. There is no talk, no reasoning only death. Adam watches his father, Moses, fall and he begins running like so many others who can't believe what is happening.
In this brief encounter with the British Adam begins to grow up and finds himself fighting. The day is long as the colonists hide, shoot, run and hide again. Adam is scared but aren't they all? It's the beginning of a long war because there is no room for talking or reasoning.
Adam watches his father shot as the redcoats fire on the men of the town who had hoped to talk first and reason it all out. There is no talk, no reasoning only death. Adam watches his father, Moses, fall and he begins running like so many others who can't believe what is happening.
In this brief encounter with the British Adam begins to grow up and finds himself fighting. The day is long as the colonists hide, shoot, run and hide again. Adam is scared but aren't they all? It's the beginning of a long war because there is no room for talking or reasoning.
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