The Minutemen are among the more romantic images that many people have of the Revolution.

Around this time in 1975, the comic strip Doonesbury did a couple of series that were set in the Revolutionary War days. They focused on an ancestor of Zonker’s named Nate Harris, who was a Minuteman.

In one strip, Paul Revere shows up with the alarm “The British are coming!”

Nate asks, “How much time do you think we have?” Paul Revere says maybe fifteen or twenty minutes, and Nate replies “I only need one, you know.”

“Really?” asks Revere.

Nate’s wife Amy chips in, “Nate’s been specially trained.”

Nate Harris was a fun character; it’s kind of a shame that Doonesbury is a weekly strip now. It would be fun to see him return for America’s 250th anniversary.

Anyway: check out the story of the real Minutemen.

Minuteman statue photo by Donovan Reeves via Unsplash.

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