Incremental change is happening....not only does our WHS track team refuse to sport the name "Rebel" on its uniforms...our Award Winning Robotics Team has ditched the "Robo-Rebels" moniker for "The Walpole Revolution". I'd like to ask you that have signed to do a couple of things: 1) make donations to the WHS Track Boosters & WHS Walpole Revolution Robotics Team... 2) PROMOTE this Petition...if I can get each of you to help with finding one co-signee, we can easily double the number of signatures on the petition. As the former Walpole Historical Commission chairman, I did find that some people have an unusual idea of what "History" really is. Many times it seemed to be that they wanted to preserve their own history, and who cares about local history and how it contributed to American history! Regarding the change to "The Walpole Revolution"... On April 19, 1775, a schoolteacher and militia man named Seth Bullard led a band of men and young teenagers on an interesting "marathon" of sorts...from Walpole Town Common to a little community to the North named Lexington, Massachusetts. Unlike Lexingtons' militia who basically could open the door and find themselves on the town green, the Walpole men of 1775 marched on the roads from Walpole through Medfield, Dover & Sherborn to points North. Among those Patriots was Benoni Morse of Walpole. He was part of the group that chased the British on their retreat to Boston. Fast-forward about four score and seven years later and Benoni's Grandson George H. Morse who was a teacher in Upstate New York decided to join the Union Army at the outbreak of the War (April, 1861!) because, according to his living descendants, he hated slavery. Sgt. Morse later re-enlisted from Walpole into the Massachusetts 56th Veteran Volunteers, Co. A, and participated in the Virginia campaigns of 1864. He was taken prisoner by the Rebels at the Battle of Petersburg in July 1864. Later paroled, he is recorded as having voted for Abraham Lincoln's 2nd term after being carried to the polls on a stretcher, still weak from his Rebel imprisonment. At the close of the Civil War, Sgt. Morse returned to Virginia as a member of the Freedmens Bureau to teach newly freed African Americans. In the course of his teaching, he was stoned by locals for doing that charitable work. In essence, Sgt. Morse was one of the first Civil Rights Workers in the USA.... He lived a long life, and died in Walpole in February, 1920...the same month my mother was born in Walpole. His great grandson Elmer Morse was a colleague of my fathers at L.F. Fales Machine Shop in Walpole.... Thank You All Very Much....