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.
Is that an one thousand pound bomb in the foreground?
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ReplyDeleteThere is a WW-2 Aviation Museum in Colorado Springs that has a restored plane like this...among a whole bunch of others.
ReplyDeleteA real war, no sissy fit dress code.
ReplyDeleteTBM Avenger dive/torpedo bomber…saw action from Midway until the early 60s
ReplyDeleteHave seen an Avenger fly out of Addison Airport just north of Dallas several times. Very, very loud.
ReplyDelete14 Cylinder Radial Engine producing 1900 Hp
DeletePappy is in the bar shed.
ReplyDeleteDoing a daily to the engine, have to keep those exhaust nuts tight...
ReplyDeletem9777 says: Tomball, TX David Hooks airport has one also. Much larger than I envisioned. Took 3 brave men to fully function.
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