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.
Sunday, February 17, 2019
Iowa-class battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) crewman check the packing of a slide extension of one of her nine 16” guns while undergoing reactivation at Bayonne, NJ, 3 November 1950.
Sister of The Big Badger Boat, BB-64!
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