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.
Not having been a blue water "squid", I have to ask: Do they remover the gun cover or do they just blow it off with the first round?
ReplyDeleteNot a blue water navy sort myself but as it looks like a steel screw clamp cover I suspect they take it off first.
ReplyDeleteThat cap and his mustache makes me think Russian Navy
ReplyDeleteI was thinking maybe it was a "Battleship Potemkin" re-make. Steve_in_Ottawa
DeletePerhaps the museum cruiser Mikhail Kutuzov. The tampions are the same but on that ship the stars are red rather than the bare metal as shown here.
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