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.
Just after the war, my Dad's aircraft carrier was stationed near Japan, so he visited there & got a shave from a Japanese barber who spoke no English. He was apparently amazed at the thickness of Dad's facial hair, so he shaved Dad twice.
My Dad reckoned he hardly thought at all about a defeated enemy shaving him as he laid helpless in the barber's chair; no sir, not at all. Why, it hardly even crossed his mind as that blade caressed his neck.
His face was "smooth as a baby's butt" that day all right, but the next day his face was covered with rash, since that barber had shaved him so close he lost a layer of skin! Dad hoped that he never again got quite so close a shave.
I wish that it was closer to the White Wolf Mine.
ReplyDeleteWould definitely go. Thanks Mr. Swanson, the a.s.m.r. Was great.
ReplyDeleteAngel is 92 or 93 now, still going. An amazing and friendly guy. His shop is a "must see" along AZ 66.
ReplyDeleteJust after the war, my Dad's aircraft carrier was stationed near Japan, so he visited there & got a shave from a Japanese barber who spoke no English. He was apparently amazed at the thickness of Dad's facial hair, so he shaved Dad twice.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad reckoned he hardly thought at all about a defeated enemy shaving him as he laid helpless in the barber's chair; no sir, not at all. Why, it hardly even crossed his mind as that blade caressed his neck.
His face was "smooth as a baby's butt" that day all right, but the next day his face was covered with rash, since that barber had shaved him so close he lost a layer of skin! Dad hoped that he never again got quite so close a shave.