GDG- Gettysburg Guiding

[Margaret D. Blough]

The tea was symbolic (although the symbolism was enough to make coffee the American national drink. I just read a letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams where he reported that a lady who owned an inn where he stayed refused on patriotic grounds to brew him tea even though he assured her that it had been "honestly smuggled" and no taxes paid and that he decided that he had to become accustomed to drink coffee).  The issue was taxation without representation in Parliament.

Regards,

Margaret

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> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes: 
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> In a message dated 31/12/2007 01:18:21 GMT Standard Time, 
> jdbano2001 at yahoo.com writes: 
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> As a guide, I am disturbed that there are folks in this group who consider 
> us to be guilty of tax evasion. 
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> John Baniszewski 
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> Isn't that what started the war of British independence way back when those 
> pesky Bostoners threw our cuppa tea into the Atlantic? 
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> Happy New Year from the redcoats 
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