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, December 8, 2019
Talk about a job that requires balls of steel.
Observer and pilot in the nose of a Handley Page Bomber, showing a Lewis gun on a Scarff ring and the bomb-sight of the former. Near Cressy” September 25 1918 by McLellan, David (2nd Lt) (Photographer)
They had parachutes, but not many flight crews wore them.
ReplyDelete"September 25, 1918".
ReplyDeleteI see a date like that and wonder if everyone in the photo survived the war.