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.
I would not have cared to try to land those on those little carriers in the old Gulf. Those jets were enormous. Funny how we seem to make war in Gulfs these last 50 years. Tonkin, Persian, just another gulf.
It's a tough job being the planetary guarantor of peace and stability. We're kinda like the Romans of old, standing on Hadrian's Wall, watching the barbarians howl and caper.
"Hud'n Hud'n"
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Last of the Gunfighters...
"Call the ball, CW"
ReplyDeleteNo doubt, CW will trap unscathed!
DeleteThat's right, first time, no sweat.
DeleteThe roundel on the wing and the smoke from the carrier's stack make me think this an Aeronavale Crusader.
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Yes, French.
DeleteI would not have cared to try to land those on those little carriers in the old Gulf. Those jets were enormous. Funny how we seem to make war in Gulfs these last 50 years. Tonkin, Persian, just another gulf.
ReplyDeleteIt's a tough job being the planetary guarantor of peace and stability. We're kinda like the Romans of old, standing on Hadrian's Wall, watching the barbarians howl and caper.
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