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.
Saturday, August 29, 2020
War Photographer David McLellan took these photos of the Royal Artillery gunners of 51st Division on Jan 5 1918. The men are entering their billet converted from a collapsed water tower at Riencourt, near Bapaume.
A very important lady in my early years told a story about her brother. He was buried alive in a trench in that war, and when he was dug up, had issues with claustrophobia until he died.
I got the same looking at all those men, and one tiny hole to escape from. No thanks.
"You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!"
Hope nobody accidentally let off a round in the drum! Can you imagine the reverberations?
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ReplyDeleteI would guess there is maybe a few levels of floors in there.
ReplyDeleteThey are certainly marching to a different drum . . . .
ReplyDeleteA very important lady in my early years told a story about her brother. He was buried alive in a trench in that war, and when he was dug up, had issues with claustrophobia until he died.
ReplyDeleteI got the same looking at all those men, and one tiny hole to escape from. No thanks.
"You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!"
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