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.
Friday, August 4, 2023
USS Indiana (BB-58) arrives in San Francisco, 29 Sept 1945. Taken from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Sometime in the last 50+ years, the US Navy decided that giving artillery support to US Marines attacking a foreign shore was no longer in the cards so they shitcanned all big boats like battleships. So sad...
we used to make amazing things
ReplyDeleteWhat a sight.
ReplyDeleteWelcome home, Boys.
(V-J Day 2 September 1945)
exactly a year before my birthday.
ReplyDeleteSometime in the last 50+ years, the US Navy decided that giving artillery support to US Marines attacking a foreign shore was no longer in the cards so they shitcanned all big boats like battleships. So sad...
ReplyDeleteHave to agree with you. The Air Force can still send in the Warthogs for some close air support. For now.
DeleteWelcome Home Sailor.
ReplyDeleteWell done.
Wow
ReplyDeleteI am loading up the ElectraGlide for a trip for places that the front wheel heads to.
ReplyDeleteHow far we’ve fallen in such a short period of time. :(
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