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.
Dad had one of those, same color. No surfboards, kids inside, luggage on top and off to the Adirondacks for vacation. Those were some good times.
ReplyDeleteThank you from an old, arthritic SoCal boomer.
ReplyDeleteOh but to live those days again! Although I like body surfing better.
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