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.
St. Joan of Arc....we could certainly use a few thousand more in her mold right about now...
"Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God. I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith."
"... since God commanded me to go, I must do it."
"Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth....Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth."
[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] "If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it."
"Courage! Do not fall back."
"In God's name let us go on bravely....I fear nothing for God is with me!"
Amen I believe the docile church refuted Joan because they were in fear. Their weakness compelled them to kill her. Yet for all their power they could not vanquish her. Esther is another fine example of boldness in God, courage before men.
I remember an interview on some talking heads show that had Col. David Hackworth on and they asked his views on women in combat. He started off referring to some unit that had women he wouldn't want to tangle with in it. Then went to the Israeli experience where it was thought that the death in combat of a female comrade would drive the males to berserker mode. In reality it had a devastating blow to moral. As Hackworth eloquently put it "having a disembodied breast from a mortar attack flop across one's arm only breaks the heart. He went on to say "women are about life & giving life". "We have to ask ourselves if we really want to break that contract". There is an A10 female combat pilot that served in Iraq. She was the essence of what a Professional close Air Support combat pilot should be; just as my father was flying a B26 over Korea. As with him she had some hardened parts and a few guarded broken parts. It saddened me. Those things did not belong on her. With Pop it was different; he was able to wear it but he did stay in close contact with others of his ilk, a necessity I doubt she has.
IIRC, what the Israelis discovered was that combat against a group of females would turn the Arabs into suicidal berserkers that would never surrender. This situation was very counterproductive to winning battles, so they removed them from frontline service, and relegated them to support and other indirect military positions.
Burn her!
ReplyDeleteIt's a Farbee re-enactment. They'll balk at that point.
DeleteThat’s a bit harsh
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to hopscotch and jacks? Anyone out there remember?!!!
ReplyDeletea joan of arc reenactment?
ReplyDeleteSt. Joan of Arc....we could certainly use a few thousand more in her mold right about now...
ReplyDelete"Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God. I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith."
"... since God commanded me to go, I must do it."
"Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth....Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth."
[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] "If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it."
"Courage! Do not fall back."
"In God's name let us go on bravely....I fear nothing for God is with me!"
Amen
DeleteI believe the docile church refuted Joan because they were in fear. Their weakness compelled them to kill her. Yet for all their power they could not vanquish her.
Esther is another fine example of boldness in God, courage before men.
The Church didn't kill Joan, that was the French King who was scared of her.
DeleteGreat work on the suit of armor. Wonder if it was made just for her?
ReplyDeletelooks like an A cup, but mail me the correct info.
DeleteI remember an interview on some talking heads show that had Col. David Hackworth on and they asked his views on women in combat. He started off referring to some unit that had women he wouldn't want to tangle with in it. Then went to the Israeli experience where it was thought that the death in combat of a female comrade would drive the males to berserker mode. In reality it had a devastating blow to moral. As Hackworth eloquently put it "having a disembodied breast from a mortar attack flop across one's arm only breaks the heart. He went on to say "women are about life & giving life". "We have to ask ourselves if we really want to break that contract".
ReplyDeleteThere is an A10 female combat pilot that served in Iraq. She was the essence of what a Professional close Air Support combat pilot should be; just as my father was flying a B26 over Korea. As with him she had some hardened parts and a few guarded broken parts. It saddened me. Those things did not belong on her. With Pop it was different; he was able to wear it but he did stay in close contact with others of his ilk, a necessity I doubt she has.
IIRC, what the Israelis discovered was that combat against a group of females would turn the Arabs into suicidal berserkers that would never surrender. This situation was very counterproductive to winning battles, so they removed them from frontline service, and relegated them to support and other indirect military positions.
DeleteClotilde d’Arc re-enacting her great-great-great…great-aunt. She is a direct descendant of Pierre d’Arc, brother of the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc.
ReplyDeleteGreat info, thanks.
DeleteShe'll knock the snot out of that Thundberg nut
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