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.
Monday, June 30, 2025
Mrs Irma Lee McElroy adding the finishing touches. At the Naval Air Base Corpus Christi TX in 1942
Many wartime "Rosie the Riveter" photos were posed (I think that photo and many like it can be found on a Library of Congress website). I doubt that aircraft insignia were hand-painted - they were probably done with stencils that standardized the size and layout of the insignias. Also, if the girl in the photo is freshly painting the blue disc, why is her left forearm lying in the blue disc along with that the paint can resting on the blue paint? (!)
Seeing the clean hands and spotless uniform-
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Many wartime "Rosie the Riveter" photos were posed (I think that photo and many like it can be found on a Library of Congress website). I doubt that aircraft insignia were hand-painted - they were probably done with stencils that standardized the size and layout of the insignias. Also, if the girl in the photo is freshly painting the blue disc, why is her left forearm lying in the blue disc along with that the paint can resting on the blue paint? (!)
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