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Article #351Re: The Minuteman Movement
From: Bill Shatzer
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:00
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:00
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Paul J. Berg wrote: > > Steven wrote: > >>Minute MAID please, less pulp~ > I attended John Marshall High in Portland, Oregon. The boy teams were > called the Minutemen and the girl tams were called the Minute Maids. > The high school was named after US Chief Justice John Marshall. As a > history buff, I know Justice Marshall never had anything to do with > the minutemen of American Revolution fame. And, before anyone asks, I > have no idea on how the name became attached to the school's teams. John Marshall was an officer in the Culpepper (Virginia) Minutemen. Not the Minutemen of Lexington and Concord fame but minutemen none the less. http://gen.culpepper.com/archives/va/culpeper/minutemen.htm "The Chief Justices" or "The Fighting Lawyers" just don't work all that well as team nicknames and apparently "Minutemen" was the best available. Peace and justice,
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