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Originally Posted by HHP
My mother recently passed away at age 97. When we cleaned out her place, we found many photos I don't recall ever seeing. Some were photos of her in her early 20's and she was definitely a hot number for Shenandoah College. Many more were photos of my Dad around Marseilles during WWII, obviously not the the quiet , hard working guy I remember raising me. On the boat to France, he won several thousand dollars playing cards. He sent 1/2 home to his mother and spent the rest over several days in Paris.
The Army did not provide pocket knives so he wrote home to my mother and asked her to get him a knife. He needed it to open cans. When she got the letter, she assumed he needed it for hand to hand fighting with the SS and sent him a wicked 12" bladed Bowie with a huge steel pommel. He kept it his whole life and I got it after he died. I also just recovered a very heavy winter coat he won off a truck driver in France. When I wear it I often wonder about the poor schmuck who froze his behind off in and open cab deuce and a half for the rest of the war.
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If, by any chance, you've never heard Guy Clark's "The Randall Knife," you ought to. Do a Youtube search...
02-09-2019, 07:30 PM
