And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, September 5, 2016
US soldiers of the 10th Armoured and 45th Division, 7th US Army stand on the cannon of a captured German Rail Gun in Rentwertshausen, Germany. April 1945.
"Rail gun"- that's another word that doesn't mean the same thing today as it used to; the new spelling is usually "railgun."
ReplyDeleteIt's a pretty impressive pea-shooter, though!