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.
The E-2 and more particularly the current variant, is most impressive.
ReplyDeleteEspecially with an angry, vengeful eagle painted on it.
DeleteBrings back memories from my time on the Saratoga. We always trusted the guidance given by 'screwtop'.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad was cargo on the first AWACS being flown out of Offutt AFB back about 1965 IIRC. He was an intelligence officer.
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