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, December 26, 2020
Sikorsky S-43 “The Baby Clipper” Molokai, Hawaii USA 1935
That's back when the leper colony on Molokai was still a thriving concern.
ReplyDeleteFather Damien popped into my head when I read this... in the 5th grade (Kailua) we studied Hawaiian history and that part sunk in!
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