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.
First use is always a test. The universe doesn't care what you call it.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if this happened to any pilots bombing North Vietnam?
ReplyDeleteNo, it happens at Patuxent River or Edwards; then it gets fixed, then it goes out to fleet.
DeleteEglin more often than Edwards for this kind of test, but yeah.
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