New Movie Series: "America. Her People. Her Stories."

The following excerpt is from the Dr. Gregory J.W. Urwin's commentary in the movie "The Battle of Bunker Hill" (2009, video documentary short) http://www.bunkerhilldvd.com/ .

The movie was produced and directed by Tony Malanowski, and associate producers William Chemerka and Kevin Reem." This is the first movie in movie series "America. Her People. Her Stories. -The way your children learn about the history of the United States is about to change forever."

"One of the surprising things about American Revolution is that a lot of Americans didn’t support it. But there was this special core of patriots who endured all the hardship all the dangers we associate with war, and even more so then than today, because American government was new, it was weak, it could not always pay people, people often went years without pay, troops went years without pay, very often they were short of food, there war periods when they were short of uniforms, the fact that there were enough people who stuck with it under those circumstances to beat the British, to establish independence was incredible.”

And what they were trying to overthrow was not a typical European or Byzantine tyrant, they were rebelling against the most liberal government on Earth for a cause or a series of causes that we might consider a bit esoteric today. They had to understand what is it they are risking and why, what the taxes are doing to them and what representation meant. People made tremendous sacrifices, because of what they believed in: the individual rights, the rights of the new nation.

One thing that today young people could learn from the revolution is that if you want things to get better, if you want freedom to flourish, if you want to live in a country where your rights and the rights of your neighbors are respected, you can’t leave that to anyone else, you can’t outsource that. The revolutionary generation believed in something they called public virtue. They felt that liberty will only endure if the people supported it. And you must defend your country in wartime, and in peace time keeping your eye on the government, keeping an eye on policies, voting, making sure that the best people were guiding your fortunes in the legislative and the executive and judicial branches of your government."

~ Dr. Gregory J.W. Urwin, Professor of History, Temple University

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