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, April 30, 2025
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Alfred's victory reverberates to this day: He sparked a literary renaissance, restructured Britain's roadways, revised the legal codes, and revived Christian learning and worship. It was Alfred's accomplishments that laid the groundwork for Britain's later glories and triumphs in literature, liturgy, and liberty.
"Ben Merkle tells the sort of mythic adventure story that stirs the imagination and races the heart--and all the more so knowing that it is altogether true!" - George Grant, author of The Last Crusader and The Blood of the Moon
Another picture from the latest caving adventure
They found a tree cast, where the lava flow went around a tree and the tree burned up, leaving a round hole in the rocky lava where it once grew. This guy is seeing how deep it is. Wow.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
A&G Fish Shoppe of the 458th Bomb Group in Belgium after an emergency landing, 18 March 1945.
The aircraft had taken three direct hits over Berlin, causing it to lose electrical and hydraulic power as well as the #3 engine. The engine threw its prop on the return flight, and engine #2 shut down shortly later. On final approach to a small dirt airfield in Allied-occupied Belgium the #4 engine also quit, but the plane made it to the ground safely with less than 50 gallons of fuel remaining.