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.
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
First Army Front: British (upper) and German (lower) front line trenches east of Picantin and le Tilleloy, 1916.
As wars go (in general), it was an exceptionally bad war.
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DeleteThere was the death and destruction of the war and on top of that a deadly flu pandemic.
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