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.
An amusing anecdote from former SECNAV about his cousin Grace Kelly asking the Navy to send. him up to the palace when he showed up in Monaco on his ship back when he was a junior officer.
She knew too much…and all that implies.
ReplyDeleteShe was my birthday present.
ReplyDelete"On January 31, 1955, Kelly appeared on the cover of Time."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Kelly
If you are in the area make it a point to visit Monaco. Fun place. This is especially true around Cannes Film Festival and the F1 race.
ReplyDeleteLiberty Call for the crew of that USN tin can just over her head.
ReplyDeleteGrace.In name and nature.
ReplyDeleteShe was a beautiful person. Gone far too soon. Rainier was devastated, as were the rest of us.
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Grace Kelley grew up in West Philadelphia. Her brother was a sculler on the Schukill River. On the north side of the river is Kelley Drive.
ReplyDeleteAn amusing anecdote from former SECNAV about his cousin Grace Kelly asking the Navy to send. him up to the palace when he showed up in Monaco on his ship back when he was a junior officer.
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