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 first part of the Japanese (written right to left at the time) says "Life on a warship", can't make out the 5th character, but the 6th one is "ken" (sword).
The USN and no doubt the RN used to have Smokers on the fantail and Fleet Boxing championships in the interwar period. I can see kendo on the IJN. OTOH, we used to have sea bats and mail buoy watches, always taken to extremes by older pilots with the neophyte first time aboard LTs fresh out of Pensacola.
I believe its an inter War photo. The uniforms look too old and the gun on the left looks too old for WW2
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DeleteThere is similar postcard from 1910-1915.
DeleteThe first part of the Japanese (written right to left at the time) says "Life on a warship", can't make out the 5th character, but the 6th one is "ken" (sword).
ReplyDeleteThe USN and no doubt the RN used to have Smokers on the fantail and Fleet Boxing championships in the interwar period. I can see kendo on the IJN. OTOH, we used to have sea bats and mail buoy watches, always taken to extremes by older pilots with the neophyte first time aboard LTs fresh out of Pensacola.
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