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.
I always liked the name of the ship. "After the Doolittle Raid, launched from the aircraft carrier Hornet, President Roosevelt answered a reporter's question by saying that the raid had been launched from "Shangri-La", the fictional faraway land of the James Hilton novel Lost Horizon."-Wikipedia
My father served on both the Shangri-La & Oriskany in the late 50s, Talk about a time waster, I just spent an hour looking through the Shangri-La '56-'57 West Pac cruise book. I still miss him. Thanks.
Man, that's super! Takes me back to the days when I was ten feet tall and bulletproof.
ReplyDeleteI always liked the name of the ship. "After the Doolittle Raid, launched from the aircraft carrier Hornet, President Roosevelt answered a reporter's question by saying that the raid had been launched from "Shangri-La", the fictional faraway land of the James Hilton novel Lost Horizon."-Wikipedia
ReplyDeleteI miss old Burl Ive's voice. Sounds from my youth....
ReplyDeleteseeing a carrier in action like that. Now we have the Ford class whose lead ship may never leave the shipyard.
ReplyDeleteMy father served on both the Shangri-La & Oriskany in the late 50s, Talk about a time waster, I just spent an hour looking through the Shangri-La '56-'57 West Pac cruise book. I still miss him. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteIn no way was that a time waster.
Deletethe Fords were sweet. would have been interesting to have had the Skylancers.(Fords with J-79s)
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