Experience the American dream with today’s Patriot of the Past interview. I’m your host, John Gillespie.
It’s December 16, 1773. I’m on the British ship Dartmouth in Boston Harbor with 14-year-old Johnny Tremain.
JG: “Johnny, why is a young man like you throwing tea into the sea with the Sons of Liberty?”
JT: “Mr. Gillespie, the British shot my brother in the Boston Massacre, they attacked my dad’s business, and those lobsterbacks stay in my house without our permission. They’ve got to go.”
Go they did, but it would take 10 more years of fighting to bring the end of English tyranny.
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John and Jan Gillespie are the founders of the Rawhide Boys’ Ranch; they have fostered 351 teenagers and wrote the book Our 351 Sons; they have also assisted numerous churches in developing youth programs and expanding their total church ministries. After running for U.S. Senate, John founded 1776 American Dream, which exists to demonstrate the vision of our founding fathers and help our generation of youth passionately embrace those values.
