06-13-2007, 05:23 AM
Sounds like a good "founding fable".....but in that case why are the horse (which is always shown live ! ) and the palm tree often depicted separately ?
Maybe the story was invented by someone who had seen the coins....
Maybe the story was invented by someone who had seen the coins....
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff