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.
Purchased a machinist toolbox at estate sale. He worked at the Ford City plant during WW2, great collection of bits and pieces during his time there. Old school machinists and tool makers were true craftsman. No computers or calculators, Notebooks, pencils and slide rules.
He was my friend AL who built cash registers for NCR. I was given his Gerstner tool box and this is one of the drawers. He also is one of the few who saw combat in 1946 (you read that right) fighting the Japanese who would not surrender and attacked his unit (engineers fixing runways) on a regular basis. The “war workers handbook” is an interesting read!
Old Joke...
ReplyDeleteCalling the Drugstore: "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?"
Druggist: "Yes."
Caller: "Let him out!"
My farther smoked Carter Hall..."So fresh, so fresh in the pouch."
You beat me to it. By the way, is your refrigerator running? You better go catch it!
DeletePurchased a machinist toolbox at estate sale. He worked at the Ford City plant during WW2, great collection of bits and pieces during his time there. Old school machinists and tool makers were true craftsman. No computers or calculators,
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I am guessing that an old man died, and this is a pile of "stuff" that his kids found in his kitchen junk drawer.
ReplyDeleteHe was my friend AL who built cash registers for NCR. I was given his Gerstner tool box and this is one of the drawers. He also is one of the few who saw combat in 1946 (you read that right) fighting the Japanese who would not surrender and attacked his unit (engineers fixing runways) on a regular basis. The “war workers handbook” is an interesting read!
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