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.
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Imagine this today. And nice hat, kid!
A boy eagerly holding out a wartime ration book certificate to a grocery store vendor while purchasing a can of V8 juice, during WWII, 1943
My mom told a WW II story of "the word" going out in the [Detroit] neighborhood when butter, or eggs, or nylons had appeared at the local shop(s), and all the neighbor women would rush to stand in line, hoping that the supply would last until they could get their ration.
My mom told a WW II story of "the word" going out in the [Detroit] neighborhood when butter, or eggs, or nylons had appeared at the local shop(s), and all the neighbor women would rush to stand in line, hoping that the supply would last until they could get their ration.
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