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 the famous kung fu grip model?
ReplyDeleteThe original stuff is worth some money today.
ReplyDeleteI was never allowed to have a GI Joe.
ReplyDeleteSame here. My dad said no sons of his would ever play with dolls.
DeleteChristmas for us boys in the 60's ALWAYS entailed lots of toy GUNS!
That's what mine said as well.
Deletehis dog tag - big as his head! Punishment?
ReplyDeleteHeh. The box shows him with a flammenwerfer !
ReplyDeleteGI Joe was an insidious plot to have boys play with dolls.
ReplyDeleteHasbro screwed the pooch from the get-go, by giving a Marine a damned Army patrol cap, instead of a proper 8-point cover.
ReplyDeleteFail.
And his grip is the original "firing the M-1 Garand" grip.
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