It's a small world, especially when your world revolves around folk who do or did what you do or did.
A (comparatively) young man has opened a militaria/antique shop in Leavenworth, which is a good thing. With all the retirees around here dying off, someone should be able to make a go of something like that. He's sponsoring a formal militaria collectors club which has a core group of greybeard fellow travelers like myself. We're kicking around ideas about how to hook the youngsters on our particular form of crack.
All of us are veterans of some sort, most with merit badges for having been to exciting places in exciting times. Which means that when we meet, there's as much war story telling as their is any business transacted. As we have no fighter or helo pilots in the group thus far, there's a lot of TINS, but not much hand-waving, as one finds when aviators are present.
Of course, that's part of the attraction. I already know enough hand-wavers...
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Aug 14 2011, 08:19 AM
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Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys..