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.
When I visited in 1991, they were still digging stuff up almost daily. The history lesson that weekend was intense, numbers/pounds/people/equipment that boggle the mind as to be concentrated in that one area. Intense.
..until you try to remove it?
ReplyDeleteWhen I visited in 1991, they were still digging stuff up almost daily. The history lesson that weekend was intense, numbers/pounds/people/equipment that boggle the mind as to be concentrated in that one area. Intense.
ReplyDeleteThe Argonne probably has two wars worth of UXO. From both sides.
ReplyDeleteSome forests still stand because the trees are full of bullets and shrapnel. Unsafe to take a saw to.
ReplyDeleteStill would have hurt if it hit you
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