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.
The story of that ship, caught over the mid Pacific when war broke out and the subsequent round the world flight to LaGuardia is epic.
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Was that Indiana Jones on the dock getting on the plane?....
ReplyDeleteAny idea where that was filmed?
ReplyDeleteSan Francisco, CA Pan Am's Seaplane port on Treasure Island. That's the old section of the Bay Bridge in the background.
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