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Offline Libertas

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83 days on a raft
« on: May 29, 2015, 11:36:12 AM »
83 days adrift on a raft, 2 Nov 1942 - 24 Jan 1943

http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/oral-histories/wwii/83-days-on-a-life-raft.html

Ugh.  What an ordeal.

Can't imagine what something like that would be like.

And I can't imagine average folks of this generation lasting half as long...
We are now where The Founders were when they faced despotism.

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Re: 83 days on a raft
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2015, 04:58:59 PM »
Wow!!! They called them the Greatest Generation for a reason. ::USA::
"Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem."

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