The 78-Year-Old Patriot Who Refused to Die

It is said that old soldiers never die. In the case of Samuel Whittemore, he refused to fade away.

Capt. Whittemore was a 78-year-old farmer living on the outskirts of Concord, Massachusetts when on April 19, 1775, he awoke to the sound of marching British troops and the “shot heard round the world.”