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.
December ‘66: On the way back “Down South” after refitting in Okinawa we put in to Subic Bay to change buses; USS Henrico-USS Iwo Jima. Quartered in the Hilltop area, a novelty was a San Miguel machine. Unfortunately it wasn’t functional much less stocked. Years later working in Washington, DC, cafeteria at work had a soda machine stocked with 3-4 brands of beer. Self imposed house limits but fifty cents a pop or some such. Cafeteria line offered boxed red/white Gallo by the plastic glass.
Had a machine like in the barracks at CGAS San Fran back in the late 70's, drop a quarter punch the button and get a cold can of beer.
ReplyDeleteDecember ‘66: On the way back “Down South” after refitting in Okinawa we put in to Subic Bay to change buses; USS Henrico-USS Iwo Jima. Quartered in the Hilltop area, a novelty was a San Miguel machine. Unfortunately it wasn’t functional much less stocked. Years later working in Washington, DC, cafeteria at work had a soda machine stocked with 3-4 brands of beer. Self imposed house limits but fifty cents a pop or some such. Cafeteria line offered boxed red/white Gallo by the plastic glass.
DeleteGlass bottles, cork lined caps, no high fructose corn syrup... sigh...
ReplyDeleteSun drop is quite good!
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