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.
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Girl holding her dog during an Animal Day parade in Warsaw, Poland, 1936.
God only knew the suffering that lay just ahead.
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts exactly. I wonder if she survived the war abs what unspeakable horrors did she experience.
DeleteIndeed. Time was so very short for them. God Bless Them.
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I very often think same thing of people in old photographs, especially of war time
ReplyDeleteBad years coming... I think this a lot when I see pre-WW2 photos these days.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that Greta in the background?
ReplyDeleteNah, that kid is cute. "How daaaarrrrre you" Thunberg is a dog. No insult intended to the pooch in this pic.
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