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.
I was in Iwakuni in 1976 when they were new. We had two crashes, one fatal. I'd pass on this one.
ReplyDeleteWe lost about one per year at my squadron. Not for me.
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