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.
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Richard Haught, miner, fiddler and tracker with his wife, Winona Haught, artist, born, 1906 / 1910. Globe, Arizona
"Richard entered the U.S. Navy at L Dalles, Oregon in April of 1944, and served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of Operations. He served on the KA-54, a cargo ship converted into a Landing Craft LCI, carrying smaller Landing Craft. His unit was involved in the invasion of the Philippines and Okinawa. Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned to Luzon three days after Richard's outfit had cleared the Japanese. He received two Invasion Ribbons and the Asiatic-Pacific Theater ribbon, and was discharged a Seaman First Class in November of 1945 at San Francisco, Calif." -Cori Hoag
"Richard entered the U.S. Navy at L Dalles, Oregon in April of 1944, and served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of Operations. He served on the KA-54, a cargo ship converted into a Landing Craft LCI, carrying smaller Landing Craft. His unit was involved in the invasion of the Philippines and Okinawa. Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned to Luzon three days after Richard's outfit had cleared the Japanese. He received two Invasion Ribbons and the Asiatic-Pacific Theater ribbon, and was discharged a Seaman First Class in November of 1945 at San Francisco, Calif." -Cori Hoag
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