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.
Dad was a bombardier and set up in one of those a few times. He never deployed. He was supposed to be part of a B-29 crew but was involved in an AT-11 crash that put him in the hospital for 2 years.
From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
A neighbor had been navigator on B-24s. He said the crew could keep their feet or arms warm, but not both. Even with electric warm socks and gloves it was a losing battle.
Dad was a bombardier and set up in one of those a few times. He never deployed. He was supposed to be part of a B-29 crew but was involved in an AT-11 crash that put him in the hospital for 2 years.
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From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,
ReplyDeleteAnd I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
By Randall Jarrell
A neighbor had been navigator on B-24s. He said the crew could keep their feet or arms warm, but not both. Even with electric warm socks and gloves it was a losing battle.
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