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.
Back in the late 1950's, the Wisconsin ANG flew F-89s. One of them vanished over Lake Superior one night. Of course, there are those who claim it was shot down by a UFO.
Air-to-air rockets? The stupidest and shortest-lived weaponry ever deployed, on the first purpose-built jet fighter, which was yet another extravagantly wasteful orgy of defense production on an airframe that didn't even last 10 years in service, and never saw even 5 seconds of combat time despite three years of the Korean War.
Back in the late 1950's, the Wisconsin ANG flew F-89s. One of them vanished over Lake Superior one night. Of course, there are those who claim it was shot down by a UFO.
ReplyDeleteAir-to-air rockets?
ReplyDeleteThe stupidest and shortest-lived weaponry ever deployed, on the first purpose-built jet fighter, which was yet another extravagantly wasteful orgy of defense production on an airframe that didn't even last 10 years in service, and never saw even 5 seconds of combat time despite three years of the Korean War.
But it paid a lot of mortgages around Hawthorne.