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.
Everyone thought that blimps were the future back then.
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She was fitted with the mooring mast for the USN airships of the time. Here she with the Shenandoah moored to her
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The airships were always stations too far from the front to fulfill their scouting role effectively.