" Mein Fuhrer!... I can _VALK_!"

Rick Jones wrote:
In sci.space.history Pat Flannery wrote:
But that's just one patriot's opinion.

Some patriot you are - you ignored the USS Turtle

It was a good, and monarch-hating submarine out to slay the beastly British.
Unfortunately, like the Fenian Ram, it was unable to complete its noble
mission, and soon Lady Liberty's breasts were being pawed by John Bull's
filthy and corrupted hands, to our eternal shame.
Although the British burned Washington in 1814, we have still not burned
London, and that is a thing that yet needs doing.

Pat