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.
Saturday, March 15, 2025
View of an overturned Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk alongside USS TOPEKA (CL-67), as crews attach hoists to right the seaplane. Photographed in 1945.
Flown by Pete "Maverick" Mitchell's grandfather, documenting the first time he used the family catch phrase "...because I was inverted...".
ReplyDeleteLook like a big ol shark they are hoisting up in deck.
ReplyDeleteDoes the lack of a pontoon on the port side have anything to do with it being sunny side down?
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