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, February 28, 2018
Father Cajus, regimental chaplain of a Tyrolean Rifle Regiment (Tiroler Kaiserjägerregiment), in trenches on the Italian Front, 1916.
I'd be willing to bet the father could sight in a Mauser.
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