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.
With 8 little solar panels.
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Afterburner is hard on cat crew deckhands' underpants.
Why is the hull number on the bow upside down?
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That was the first thing I noticed too, Rick. It's not a reversed photo because the angled flight deck is correct.
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DeleteUnless someone's been hiding CVA-09 from us, because Saratoga's deck number is right-side up in every pic I've ever seen.
Maybe this was in the 1960s, when the military was taking the 60-IQ recruits, and the dyslexic SOB's painted it backwards.
Lot of interesting and informative Tomcat stuff at the Ward Carroll YouTube posts.
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