The Flight from Downtown Manhattan
Noreen Malone of New York magazine had the interesting idea to interview Early American historians to see if George Washington’s flight from the southern tip of Manhattan in 1776 might hold any lessons for the Occupy Wall Street movement, which was evicted from Zuccotti Park this morning.


Richard Cotner ”The summer soldier and sunshine patriot will in this hour of crisis shrink from service to their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman” —Never mind Bloomberg and the NYPD– winter’s coming
Comment by Richard Cotner — November 15, 2011 @ 11:12 pm
Another army forced out of camp, the Bonus Army: http://www.theawl.com/2011/10/what-does-the-bonus-army-tell-us-about-occupy-wall-street.
Comment by Jeff Pasley — November 16, 2011 @ 6:28 pm