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, November 8, 2024
20 August 1947. Major Marion E. Carl, USMC, left, and Commander Turner F. Caldwell, Jr., USN, stands with the record-setting Douglas D-558-I Skystreak, No. 37970, on Muroc Dry Lake.
Marion Carl was murdered while defending his wife and home from an armed assailant. Hero to the end. https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2011/12/family_of_maj_gen_marion_carl.html
Marion Carl was murdered while defending his wife and home from an armed assailant. Hero to the end. https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2011/12/family_of_maj_gen_marion_carl.html
ReplyDeleteI leave them to remember.. And now I'm crying..
ReplyDeleteI saw that plane in the US Navy Aviation Museum in Pensacola.
ReplyDeleteNice Red, White, and blue composition
ReplyDeleteBack when men were men. Like my father, AAF, 1941-1945.
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