A few years back the traveling wall came to the VA Hospital here in Dublin Ga, very humbling......I worked nights and there was someone at the wall all night as the names were read.....old soldiers and young soldiers came at all hours to pay their respects. Makes me proud to be an American...
An Ithaca lever action .22 single shot my Dad got it for my 9th birthday thought I was so cool it had that cowboy look I even had a cowboy hat too. That was 61 years ago......still got that shooting iron pardner....
My Dad was in wore several of them. He did 32 years in the Army went in at 17 in 1942 did WW2, Korea(2 tours),Viet Nam(2 tours). Makes my 3 years look kind of lame....but even plastic they still call us Army Men.....