during the great depression the great supreme court justice of the day was oliver wendell holmes. oliver wendell holmes fought in the civil war. on the battlefield he met lincoln. when lincoln was a young man the president of the united states was john quincy adams. when john quincy adams was a boy in massachusetts he heard the gunfire at the battle of bunker hill. perhaps one of the greatest figures of that battle, another great and forgotten figure of the american founding is a man named joseph warren. in the context of the american founding you might recall the suffolk resolve. he is also the man who sent a horseman named paul revere on a very famous ride. he was very dedicated to the revolutionary cause. and when the british had been chased from concord back to boston, and the americans took position on bunker hill, a very weak position, though he was a leader in the colonial movement and had been appointed a general, adjunct general he went instead volunteered to fight defending that position. the british, of course, where wanting to have nothing with these rabble who thought