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85817 days ago, at Boston’s old State House, “fellow patriot Sheriff William Greenleaf attempted to read [the Declaration of Independence] from the balcony, but he could only muster a whisper. Col. Crafts then stood next to the sheriff and read it from the balcony in a stentorian tone.”
Boston today continues the tradition of mumbling the Declaration (following closer in spirit the whispering Sheriff than the stentor) — though on the wrong date, and there is a disturbing absence of burning lions and unicorns.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lntq52B1nD1qzyptno1_1280.jpg)
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85817 days ago, at Boston’s old State House, “fellow patriot Sheriff William Greenleaf attempted to read [the Declaration of Independence] from the balcony, but he could only muster a whisper. Col. Crafts then stood next to the sheriff and read it from the balcony in a stentorian tone.”
Boston today continues the tradition of mumbling the Declaration (following closer in spirit the whispering Sheriff than the stentor) — though on the wrong date, and there is a disturbing absence of burning lions and unicorns.
