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.
AH, the good old West-Side highway. I have many fond memories of sailing down that elevated megalith. However, it was a few years after the Normandie flipped over.
SS Ile de France, caught fire during a refit in NY after the US entering WWII. Capsized due to the amount of water poured on it in an attempt to put the fire out. Was scrapped in place subsequently.
AH, the good old West-Side highway. I have many fond memories of sailing down that elevated megalith. However, it was a few years after the Normandie flipped over.
ReplyDeletetypical french. get frightened, roll over and die.
DeleteBurned and capsized during troopship rebuild in 1942, was scrapped after the war. (I had to look)
ReplyDeleteSS Ile de France, caught fire during a refit in NY after the US entering WWII. Capsized due to the amount of water poured on it in an attempt to put the fire out. Was scrapped in place subsequently.
ReplyDeleteOn her way to the breaker's yard the retired Ile de France was partially sunk to film the 1960 Robert Stack & Dorothy Malone film The Last Voyage.
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