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.
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
A high rigger holding an axe standing beside another employee of the Capilano Timber Company. Canada, 1920.
I have done what I thought was dangerous work my whole life, but these guys have always impressed me, when I saw pictures of the type of men they were and the work they had to do. You just knew that they had a hard life, but they did it, and without the bitching like the guys like me. And I had OSHA to protect me during my 35 years in the foundry, and now in my other endeavors. Strong men.
I have done what I thought was dangerous work my whole life, but these guys have always impressed me, when I saw pictures of the type of men they were and the work they had to do. You just knew that they had a hard life, but they did it, and without the bitching like the guys like me. And I had OSHA to protect me during my 35 years in the foundry, and now in my other endeavors. Strong men.
I wore "hooks" exactly like those when I worked for NJ Bell in the early 1970's/
ReplyDeleteI have done what I thought was dangerous work my whole life, but these guys have always impressed me, when I saw pictures of the type of men they were and the work they had to do. You just knew that they had a hard life, but they did it, and without the bitching like the guys like me. And I had OSHA to protect me during my 35 years in the foundry, and now in my other endeavors. Strong men.
ReplyDeleteI have done what I thought was dangerous work my whole life, but these guys have always impressed me, when I saw pictures of the type of men they were and the work they had to do. You just knew that they had a hard life, but they did it, and without the bitching like the guys like me. And I had OSHA to protect me during my 35 years in the foundry, and now in my other endeavors. Strong men.
ReplyDeleteYou had to watch out for yourself.
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