| Article: | Yorktown: The end and beginning YORKTOWN, Va. - First, we did the Pledge of Allegiance. Then, "America the Beautiful," and then "God Bless America." A person is struck with such impulses standing on the edge of the Yorktown battlefield. Nearby Williamsburg has its moments, of course, full of the historic footprints of Thomas Jefferson and the other patriot-revolutionaries who trod its streets now well more than 200 years ago. ("Trod," I know. But I was feeling very colonial.) |