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.
Used to sit behind Honolulu International Airport while stationed at Pearl Harbor from time to time at night drinking beer and watch Navy and Airforce jets using the manmade ocean runway take off with their afterburners firing. Is always quite the sight.
Straight up in a Starfighter.
ReplyDeleteMeh. Either pull actual 90° pitch, or go home.
DeleteDuffers tilting the photo crop on a 75° attempt don't get it done.
Used to sit behind Honolulu International Airport while stationed at Pearl Harbor from time to time at night drinking beer and watch Navy and Airforce jets using the manmade ocean runway take off with their afterburners firing. Is always quite the sight.
ReplyDeleteBeen there done that, those were the days, sigh!
ReplyDeleteOnce they go ballistic they don't hang around very long. An AF Safety Officer once told me that "they haven't left one up there yet".
ReplyDeleteAlways loved the F-104, though I hear they can make a widow out of your wife if you look away for a second or so....
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