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, November 22, 2020
A British soldier fusing mortar ammunition in a trench in Mesopotamia, WWI
Dang! Now there is a job I would pass on!
ReplyDeleteFuses are always tricky. But they were a lot trickier 100 years ago than they are now.
ReplyDeleteRaw Courage.
ReplyDeleteThat is one hell of mortar. Says the former 11C20 Mortar man.
ReplyDeleteFuses! Sweat clearing a misfire from that tube!
ReplyDeleteI believe those are gas shells.
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