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, December 29, 2025
Imagine you are a ten year old boy and this comes for you under the Christmas tree. Wooo!
Had one, was as good as your saying, just old enough to remember watching every Gemini launch on a black and white, maybe 15 inch, TV. Heady times. Seriously, shaped my life, enthralling stuff, those astronauts had balls that clacked when they walked, getting on top of those Titan rockets, vivid, and two weeks sharing a telephone booth, read Real Men.
Had one, was as good as your saying, just old enough to remember watching every Gemini launch on a black and white, maybe 15 inch, TV. Heady times. Seriously, shaped my life, enthralling stuff, those astronauts had balls that clacked when they walked, getting on top of those Titan rockets, vivid, and two weeks sharing a telephone booth, read Real Men.
ReplyDeleteDitto. However I was bit older for Gemini.
DeleteI had the GI Joe Mercury set up - very cool. It came with a 45 rpm record with astronaut chat and sounds. 1960's we're awesome.
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DeleteThat looks very familiar.
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