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.
No sign of the plane, but the tower is still there - paste these coordinates into google earth:
ReplyDelete38°41'29.43" N 9°12'57.69" W
Tante Ju.
ReplyDeleteWe know that the tower is still going strong, but where, I wonder, is that Tante Ju today? Ruins, or museum?
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ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel%C3%A9m_Tower
ReplyDeleteVisited while I was stationed in Oerias,Portugal in the mid 80's.
RHB