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The Mayor's address.
Yesterday and today mark the anniversary of a past that deserves remembrance.
Back one hundred and fifty years ago from yesterday, the battle of April nineteenth raged all along the highway from Concord to Charlestown.
One hundred and fifty years ago today the Minute Men of Medford, who the day before had pursued the British along that line of retreat, were in quarters in Cambridge.
The die was cast.
The long struggle for independence was on.
We are the successors of that generation.
We enjoy in peace all that they established out of that first armed stand in 1775.
Their labor has become our liberty; their sacrifice our security; their privation, our prosperity.
Out of all they gave, we have gained that for which, in the language of the day, they took up arms,— life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
These have become to us a birthright, unquestioned and unchallenged.
It is fitting that each year we bring back into our consciousness the sig