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.
Destroyers and smaller combatants have their decks awash at least half of the time. Which is precisely why being in the Navy is different than a pleasure cruise (other than the work). You're inside almost all of the time.
Destroyers and smaller combatants have their decks awash at least half of the time. Which is precisely why being in the Navy is different than a pleasure cruise (other than the work). You're inside almost all of the time.
ReplyDeleteGood stuff Cee Dub, been there done that although the only boat in the Navy where you're inside almost all the time is a submarine.
ReplyDeleteGot my 'sea legs' aboard a destroyer escort off of Cape Hatteras in November of 67.
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