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One of the things I like to randomly ask people (I am a delight and super fun at parties) is if they know how many people were killed in the Boston Massacre.
Most folks know that there was a thing called the Boston Massacre. If you're in the US, probably you heard about it in school as part of the history of the Revolutionary War. I remembered the name, the The Boston Massacre part. It's a catchy name. I remembered some of the facts of the thing -- British soldiers fired guns into a crowd of unarmed colonials and some of those colonial people died.
IT WAS A MASSACRE, that's the important thing, a massacre in Boston, where British soldiers shot unarmed civilians for no reason. But seriously, IT WAS A MASSACRE. It says so right there in the name.
( It was five people. Five people died. )
Most folks know that there was a thing called the Boston Massacre. If you're in the US, probably you heard about it in school as part of the history of the Revolutionary War. I remembered the name, the The Boston Massacre part. It's a catchy name. I remembered some of the facts of the thing -- British soldiers fired guns into a crowd of unarmed colonials and some of those colonial people died.
IT WAS A MASSACRE, that's the important thing, a massacre in Boston, where British soldiers shot unarmed civilians for no reason. But seriously, IT WAS A MASSACRE. It says so right there in the name.
( It was five people. Five people died. )
