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Arlington loses a patriot

SennottArlington Patch reports the passing of Fred Sennott, perhaps best known for his annual role in Patriots Day commemorations as Jason Russell, the Menotomy man shot and bayonetted on his own front steps by Redcoats retreating from the battles of Lexington and Concord.

Like Russell, Sennott was firm in his convictions. Some of you may recall him the old Wicked Good Conference, where he would defend his hard conservative values to the last (his last tagline: "Trust in God and sin not. Don't blame me I'm like Sparky I voted for Sarah too)." And frequently: Over seven years in the forum, he posted an average of five times a day.

But stop him in the street (or walk alongside him at the annual Patriots Day parade in Arlington) and the World War II veteran would just as soon show you pictures of his grandkids - or joke about his being somebody best known for getting shot and stabbed every year (in one discussion about a Boston Massacre recreation, he said he'd given up playing one of the victims years ago, in part because the grass outside the James Russell House in Arlington is softer than the concrete outside the Old State House).

He was a good guy.

His visiting hours are Wednesday. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory may be made to Menotomy Minute Men, Attn: John Graham, 7 Jason St., Arlington, MA 02474.

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Sad news. Sorry that I only knew him thru his posts on WGC.

RIP Fred.

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I only knew him through the WGC as well, and while our converstions either consisted of bumping heads over political issues or (more likely) discussing our shared love of local history (my father grew up in a house in Medford where Paul Revere stopped and I grew up in the house where the last person in Burlington, and possibly Massachusetts, to remember the call to arms on April 19, 1775 lived -and he knew of both houses and their stories), he always kept it interesting. From what I can tell, he was a really decent person who loved his wife, no matter how many times the frying pan came out, and thought the world of his kids and grandkids. I did have a chance to meet him in person once, but regretfully I didn't get to. I saw him outside of City Hall on during an event in which the Menotomy Minute Men were marching, unfortunately he was called into formation before I could introduce myself. I called his name out and he smiled and waved, though I don't think he knew who I was (I can't remember if I let him know it was me afterward).

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IMAGE(http://www.wickedgood.info/images/tinyfred.jpg) was such a presence over at the WGC that he had his own markup tag. Some of us tried to encourage him to come over here, but I guess he never got around to it. RIP Fred.

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A fascinating person -- once one learned to stay out of discussions of (post-Revolutionary era) politics and religion. He and his late cousin (Charlie -- who knew everything there was to know about the Harbor Islands) were a great tag team over on WGC -- in its early days.

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