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.
" He was climbing the rigging as the wind it did howled about, and ship like a cork it was tossed, he fell from the main mast and never was found, to the sea a young soul it was lost"
From my time in the USN, I'll never forget the admonition, "One Hand for the Man, One Hand for the Ship"!
ReplyDeleteShorten lee cables, turn hard a port. I'll teach my men not to fool around in the rigging.
ReplyDeleteBreak time is over. Get aloft!
Heard one hand for the man and one hand for the ship while in First Division in the late 60s HP: NORVA. Born and raised in Ohio.
ReplyDelete" He was climbing the rigging as the wind it did howled about, and ship like a cork it was tossed, he fell from the main mast and never was found, to the sea a young soul it was lost"
ReplyDeleteNo he doesn’t, and neither do the idiots that scale vertical cliffs etc.
ReplyDeleteMost of those guys wound up looking like Popeye. Big arms.
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