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.
She looks fantastic in those bomber sheepskins. High fashion, literally. Remember when they sold surplus sets or pants and jackets at the military surplus stores. Beautifully made. Had a bomber hat, warmest thing imaginable, very soft, make your head sweat like crazy above 32F.
Margaret Bourke-White; January 1943. War correspondent, photographer.
ReplyDeleteShe looks fantastic in those bomber sheepskins. High fashion, literally. Remember when they sold surplus sets or pants and jackets at the military surplus stores. Beautifully made. Had a bomber hat, warmest thing imaginable, very soft, make your head sweat like crazy above 32F.
ReplyDeleteSurplus Navy Pea Coats, only coat I had in the seventies.
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