Sunday, October 26, 2008

It's in the bag.


This is an old WW1 tool/ammo bag. It's made out of canvas, and the stamp on the inside front flap says 1918. That's how old this sucker is - 90 years. It's sad that all WW1 veterans are now dead. Anything we now know about that war is now second hand. Soon, our memories of WW2 will be the same. If you have a veteran of any war in your family, please, please, please talk to them, document their stories, and record them for posterity...before you and they know, all that'll be left is the stuff they carried or wrote.

By the way, as I type this, the United States Army is banging away with some real heavy stuff over across the Chesapeake at their Aberdeen Proving Grounds. My drink is getting ripples from impact tremors like that glass of water in Jurassic Park every time they light something off. Should drive over to Betterton and see what gives...

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