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.
Saturday, June 23, 2018
“USS Mississippi (BB-41) fires her forward 14-inch guns, during the bombardment of Makin, 20 November 1943. Photographed from USS Baltimore (CA-68).”
My Dad told me that if you were close to the battleships when they fired their guns, the concussion would make pencils jump six inches off the desk ( he was a radarman on a troop transport ship).
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