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.
Guy on the left looks like Brad Pitt :) !
ReplyDeleteBrad Pitt is a movie star. These guys fought for their country.
DeleteSean Connery is in the middle also!
DeleteThe one in the middle has more hardware than Schwartzenegger carried in Commando.
ReplyDeleteWhat is that between the grenades and binoculars ?
DeleteA revolver and three magazines for the submachine gun.
DeleteThose are some hard looking men, I would want them on my side.
ReplyDeleteTalk about getting supplied by your dead enemies.
ReplyDeleteThe purpose of a knife is to get a pistol, the purpose of a pistol is to get a rifle.
DeleteI don't think in practice they carried grenades like that.
ReplyDeleteWatch "Ill Met By Moonlight" to see what the war on Crete was like.
ReplyDeleteSince none of these men appear stupid, I assume you meant Cretan.
ReplyDeleteWell…. They certainly have feasted off the Germans for their weapons…. K98s and looks like a MP 40 in the middle…
ReplyDeleteThe middle one looks like he eats nails and poops out extra bullets.
ReplyDeleteOops, misread that. Saw Cretin partisans then re-read it. Then again, they might be cretin Cretans.
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