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.
Friday, April 2, 2021
A British Vickers machine gun crew in Mesopotamia, 1917.
All 3 of em are centenarians right now.
ReplyDeleteFighting the Turks? Or just keeping an eye on thing?
ReplyDeleteNo smiles there!
ReplyDelete"Mesopotamia"?
ReplyDeleteThat would be "Iraq", now.
They're not smiling because it's probably 120° F. in the shade, of which there isn't any.
And all three of them probably died 40 years ago, if not that same year.