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, November 7, 2018
French gunners (of the 73rd Regiment) manning a trench mortar in a trench in front of La Ville-aux-Bois-les-Pontavert, 8 February 1916.
Ok, only the French would rest a mortar in their crotch.
For some reason that mustache and mortar makes me think of that campy Flash Gordon movie with the score by Queen and Brian Blessed playing the king (or whatever, leader anyway) of the Hawkmen.
There must be a better way to fight a war. Ok, yes, I know there was/is. But that was supposed to be the war that ended war wasn't it?
ReplyDeleteAwfully clean uniforms and boots for all that mud.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason that mustache and mortar makes me think of that campy Flash Gordon movie with the score by Queen and Brian Blessed playing the king (or whatever, leader anyway) of the Hawkmen.
ReplyDeleteLooks like they are shooting some Red Stripes over to the Huns.
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