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 captain's gig could just motor back to the davits as the XO declares a mutiny...
ReplyDeleteThe setting shows some trust.
That setting shows a really fouled hull. Dangit, Captain, get that green slime and scum scrubbed off.
ReplyDeleteLike how they had to clean a circle of the 'ram' off for him to stand on.
You know it's a taut ship when even the Skipper stands a Mail Buoy watch.
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