Pirates and Patriots: November 2023

Sam Adams

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,
go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." Samuel Adams

"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms ... " -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at 86-87 (Pierce & Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)

Saturday, November 11, 2023

Armistice Day, November 11th, 1918 and Doughboys

Today is Armistice Day, Also termed Veterans' Day.

Today, it is a Swedish metal band, Sabaton, who is helping all of us remember WW1, termed the War to end all wars."

The Lost Doughboys

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2016/03/09/the-lost-doughboys-the-hunt-continues-for-american-mias-from-ww1/

Here's a link to a video about the American soldiers who fought in WW1 in 1918. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHY1F3JszLQ

Here's a link to the Swedish Metal band Sabaton. Museums world-wide are showing the band's film, The War to End All Wars, with the images from the Yarnhub studio. https://movie.sabaton.net/