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.
There's at least a statistical chance this man taught my uncle Billy how to fly the B-26. Wish I'd gotten to meet Uncle Billy but his bomb rack malfunctioned and he died trying to land a plane full of bombs between hedgerows in France
Looks like Lonesome George
ReplyDeleteThanks. I had one of those "I know that guy" moments but couldn't remember the name until you left that.
DeleteGobel telling WWII stories on Johnny Carson:
ReplyDelete"You remember the war. It was in all the papers."
The most famous George Gobel clip I know of:
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/K9lis3lCo9s?t=661
Johnny trying to hold it together, but George has Bob Hope and a drunk Dean Martin killin' themselves laughing.
B-26 Pilot Instructor.
ReplyDelete"You ever feel like the world is a Tuxedo and you're a pair of Brown Shoes?"
ReplyDeleteOne of the driest wits I've ever seen and hilarious.
ReplyDelete“We’ll, I’ll be a dirty bird”.
ReplyDeleteThere's at least a statistical chance this man taught my uncle Billy how to fly the B-26. Wish I'd gotten to meet Uncle Billy but his bomb rack malfunctioned and he died trying to land a plane full of bombs between hedgerows in France
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