One if by land and two if by sea,

Paul Revere said, and, if by air, three.

Ethan Allen helped to shut the airports down.

His Green Mountain boys covered the copters on the ground.

When Patrick Henry phrased his praise of liberty,

it was a coded message to the boys in Seal Team 3.

And by some great coincidence, the men at Valley Forge

all had the last name Washington or else the first name George.