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.
Sunday, December 18, 2016
William Skeoch Cumming: Drummer James Roddick of the 92nd Gordon Highlanders Defending Lieutenant Menzies during hand-to-hand fighting in the Battle of Kandahar, 1880 (1894)
That's bad ass, but...
Sometimes it's just as bad ass to go to war in Afghanistan in your flip-flops and pink jammies.
I was in Afghanistan before Afghanistan was cool, and it's a bad-ass place.
ReplyDeletePrivate SMITH! We have to *counsel* you on your choice of sleeping clothes and underweard.
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