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.
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Austro-Hungarian army parades for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Nations (Leipzig), Vienna, 1913
Wonder how many in this photo would be dead only 5 years hence?
ReplyDeleteOr even in one year.
DeleteWarm-up for capping the Archduke, and launching the next installment of Kill Everybody.
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ReplyDeleteI wonder if any of my relatives are marching there? From the photographs I have, they were all Calvary Officers so, probably not!
ReplyDeleteCalvary?
DeleteYeah, you don’t want to cross those guys.
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