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, December 13, 2020
US Army sergeant of the 35th Inf. Div., 320th Inf. Regt., Co. C, Bastogne area. January, 1945
This fellow looks like a very able soldier. God bless him and all his fellow soldiers, they gave us an America that has resisted tyrants everywhere. Now if we can just live up to their standards.
There's a man wondering why he didn't join the Marines and storm beaches in the Pacific where no snow ever fell on a soldier. Snow gets real old real fast.
Well, read about the Marines in the Pacific Islands getting Jungle 'Rot' slugging it out in malarial swamps! They had their own form of misery. A distant cousin of mine committed suicide due to many years of postwar suffering with the persistence of the 'rot'!
My 5th grade school teacher, Mrs. Pierce's brother lost some toes to frostbite in Bastogne.
ReplyDeleteAnd all those magnificent bastards are spinning in their graves over what's happening in the country today.
ReplyDeleteTough times (The depression years) make tough individuals like this WW-II soldier.
ReplyDeleteNow were witnessing what easy times produce.
The cycle of life.
This fellow looks like a very able soldier. God bless him and all his fellow soldiers, they gave us an America that has resisted tyrants everywhere. Now if we can just live up to their standards.
ReplyDeleteThere's a man wondering why he didn't join the Marines and storm beaches in the Pacific where no snow ever fell on a soldier. Snow gets real old real fast.
ReplyDeleteWell, read about the Marines in the Pacific Islands getting Jungle 'Rot' slugging it out in malarial swamps! They had their own form of misery. A distant cousin of mine committed suicide due to many years of postwar suffering with the persistence of the 'rot'!
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