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 brief 1945 poem, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner:
From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
God bless these men on the 75th anniversary of VE Day.
Ouch... bad day at work...
ReplyDeleteThe other guy thought it was a damn lucky hit.
ReplyDeleteThe brief 1945 poem, The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner:
ReplyDeleteFrom my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
God bless these men on the 75th anniversary of VE Day.