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, April 16, 2017
British airship Armstrong Whitworth returns to the airship station at Pulham after an accident with a mooring mast. 1925
Would you fly in one of those hydrogen gas bags, CW?
ReplyDeleteOk, I know you would if you were showing off for a freckle faced lass, but under any OTHER circumstances?
Not without a parachute
DeleteI wonder how many onlookers were smoking as they watched this drama?
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