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.
Swiss take their neutrality very seriously. They saw a requirement to 'intern' pilots of either side that happened to land in their territory. ~ Doctor Weasel
one grandparent's family is Swiss. Jewelers.
ReplyDeletein "Masters of the Air"/Mitchell, one can read of the prison camp kept for allied aircrew in Switzerland.
Swiss take their neutrality very seriously. They saw a requirement to 'intern' pilots of either side that happened to land in their territory.
Delete~ Doctor Weasel
Didn't their "neutrality" include aiding the Nazis?
DeleteDo they have extra wings that fold out?
ReplyDelete~ Doctor Weasel
Messerschmitt Bf 109 D-1
ReplyDeleteGoing back perhaps 15 or so generations, my father's family were Swiss. No jewelers but maybe a few cuckoo's. But who's counting?
ReplyDeleteNah... they are First Aid planes
ReplyDeleteThe Swiss AF is 1st Rate. Recommend John McPhee's book on Swiss military service that covers it. Something like "De La Concorde Suisse" (???/sic).
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