“Or, of course, the Patriots lost with clown suits like those — that bright red sweater, that crookedly grinning minuteman.”

“Several of them, wearing black T-shirts with the silhouette of a Lexington minuteman holding a musket, stood near the entrance, checking credentials.”

“An unfamiliar dread filled his mind and lungs, a feeling that he hadn't awoken by accident but been summoned like a minuteman to a war just taking shape.”

“I will also be talking with two outspoken critics of the Minuteman Project who say the minutemen are simply vigilantes.”

“Its tradition stretches back to the fifers and drummers stationed with Hudson Valley minutemen during the Revolutionary War.”

“The grandson of Captain John Parker, one of the Lexington minutemen of Revolutionary War fame, Theodore grew up in modest circumstances.”