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, December 28, 2015
Elizabeth L. Remba Gardner, of Rockford, Illinois, Class 43-W-6 WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot) at the controls of a Martin B-26 ‘Marauder’ medium bomber. Harlingen Army Air Field, Texas. 1943 (Aged 22)
I'll bet these brave women were NOT bothered by calling it a "Cockpit". And we currently have students on college campi calling for 'safe zones' because they just can't be bothered with free discussion. My heart weeps...
LL- you got me to thinking about the origins of the word, so here it is, from Google:
late 16th century: from cock + pit. In the early 18th century the term was in nautical use, denoting an area in the aft lower deck of a man-of-war where the wounded were taken, later coming to mean ‘the “pit” or well in a sailing yacht from which it was steered’; hence the place housing the controls of other vehicles.
My kinda gal.
ReplyDeleteMother in law was WASP Class 43-W-4.
ReplyDeleteRIP Gramdma Fran.
http://www.twu.edu/library/wasp/wasppdf/Sargent.pdf
Who put Bettie Page in a plane?
ReplyDeleteI'll bet these brave women were NOT bothered by calling it a "Cockpit". And we currently have students on college campi calling for 'safe zones' because they just can't be bothered with free discussion. My heart weeps...
ReplyDeleteIf not a cockpit, do we call it another word with a c in it?
DeleteLL- you got me to thinking about the origins of the word, so here it is, from Google:
ReplyDeletelate 16th century: from cock + pit. In the early 18th century the term was in nautical use, denoting an area in the aft lower deck of a man-of-war where the wounded were taken, later coming to mean ‘the “pit” or well in a sailing yacht from which it was steered’; hence the place housing the controls of other vehicles.