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.
SBD-1's in early 1942. Those are the guys who sank the IJN fleet at Midway. They are painted "Flight deck blue" because they were yellow red and silver and gloss blue, just before Pearl Harbor. Those are the orphans from Midway who are on there way to Guaddlecannal (spell?)---Ray
Obviously the '40s, the world I was born into. Several years before rocknroll, too - the air was clearer in all sorts of ways.
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ReplyDeleteAh, the clear air, the blue sky, the shimmering sea, ... the flight of Nips!
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