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.
A guy I worked with many years ago had been a US Navy pilot in a Constellation as a Hurricane Hunter. He described hitting turbulence so severe that they lost almost 1,000 feet in four seconds and ripped radio equipment from the deck. Trivia: Wilbur Wright took his last flight in an aircraft in one of these in 1944 at the age of 72.
A guy I worked with many years ago had been a US Navy pilot in a Constellation as a Hurricane Hunter. He described hitting turbulence so severe that they lost almost 1,000 feet in four seconds and ripped radio equipment from the deck. Trivia: Wilbur Wright took his last flight in an aircraft in one of these in 1944 at the age of 72.
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