Jim Philbrick
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Jun
Jim Philbrick’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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All men from the age of 16 to 60 were required to sign up and drill with the town's militia.
All the towns had one.
And it was a way to have military defense at all times.
Most of the militias were self-equipped.
The townships would provide some things if possible, but usually it was ammunition for the guns, which would just be lead and black powder, and you would make your own rounds for your gun because all the different muskets were different sizes.
The militias weren't showing up with standardized kit in any way.
They were bringing the gun they had from home.
So that could be the 150 year old fouling piece, but that's what they had.
So they brought it.
As far as their uniforms, they didn't really have uniforms when they were in militia, so they would show up in how they dressed, hopefully with a coat to stay warm.
It was very much a ragtag band, this platoon of men lined up, and they're all dressed in a different outfit, and they have a different weapon, and they're all different heights and ages, and it probably didn't look like much militarily.
I know that his group made it to Menotomi before dark.
By the time David got there, there's blood, there's bullet holes in walls, there's homes that have been burned, and he was 18 years old.
He wouldn't have known anything like that before that day.
All of the things up until that point had been talk about what Parliament had said across the ocean and this thing that had been put in the newspaper and people talking in taverns and pubs about what should be done.
But on this day, it finally started to happen.
David was at Bunker Hill in the readout.
By some accounts, that was some of the bloodiest, most horrific fighting of the entire war.
Out of all the things that happened in those years following, that day at Bunker Hill was like watching people being thrown into a meat grinder.
That scarred him forever.
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