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.
It’d be dark, smoky, hot and incredibly loud. Add pitch, roll, yaw and those guns slamming back into the mix every time they fired. Wonder how many firings before those ropes just gave up?
The guns were stroked forward to fire, and most of the blast - and smoke, went outside. I am sure in thee frenzy of combat, a few were fired inside, and that had to be a problem. Now EVERYONE is blind with sulfur smoke
brings to mind my days on a minesweeper. I saw a fellow CHENG over 6 feet tall walking down the pier in Bahrain all stooped over. The ceilings were awful low on those old wooden ships.
It’d be dark, smoky, hot and incredibly loud. Add pitch, roll, yaw and those guns slamming back into the mix every time they fired. Wonder how many firings before those ropes just gave up?
ReplyDeleteI presume everyone below deck is deaf after the first broadside?
ReplyDeleteWe rode two strokes, operated heavy machinery and worked in deafening machine shops.
DeleteThe guns were stroked forward to fire, and most of the blast - and smoke, went outside. I am sure in thee frenzy of combat, a few were fired inside, and that had to be a problem. Now EVERYONE is blind with sulfur smoke
ReplyDeleteDoes that gun have a "thing that goes up"?
ReplyDeletebrings to mind my days on a minesweeper. I saw a fellow CHENG over 6 feet tall walking down the pier in Bahrain all stooped over. The ceilings were awful low on those old wooden ships.
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