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.
Thursday, June 22, 2017
A young John Glenn poses next to the tail of his damaged F-9 Panther. His aircraft was hit with more than 700 pieces of shrapnel, earning him the nickname "Magnet Ass" from his fellow fighter pilots.
Wow. That's a lotta daylight through that hole. They don't call Grumman the Iron Works for nothing.
ReplyDeleteJohn Glenn was a truly great American. A heroic man.
ReplyDeleteI'm betting the crew chief wasn't smiling when he saw THAT.
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