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, June 4, 2021
August 8, 1936: The airship Hindenburg floats past the Empire State Building in New York.
This event is the openning of G. Gordon Liddy's book "When I Was a Kid This Was a Free Country." Good read. RIP.
ReplyDeleteThe HUGE Manatee!
ReplyDeleteIt faired better than the B-25 did in 1945.
ReplyDeleteBut not so much the next year at Lakehurst NAS....
DeleteI've read that the building's spire was originally intended as a dirigible airship docking station with passenger boarding on the 101st floor.
ReplyDeleteThat escape route would have worked great for King Kong.
DeleteMy dad was a kid on the farm then and this was the pinnacle of aviation. Eight years later he was flying a P-47 in Europe.
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