All About Pocket Knives

treefarmer wrote: ↑Fri Oct 04, 2024 1:09 pm "How'd did you do that?"
Treefarmer

Ridgegrass wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 6:30 pm That's a great story, hats off to you. Here's are my dad's WWII dog tag, medals, and ribbons. He was an Infantry 1st Lieutenant, fought in the worst of it in New Guinea and the Philippines in '43-'44, sent home nearly dead of jungle rot, hepatitis, and malaria. Won a Bronze Star. The second pic is a 107 year old "Navy League" poster that hung in my great-grandparents' window while my Uncle Mike Sash served in Le Crossic, France as an airplane mechanic in WW1. The last is a memento my MACV buddies gave me when I rotated home from 'Nam in '68. Just things that deserve keeping. J.O'.

OLDE CUTLER wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 2:02 pm Many of you may have been aware that a year ago my brother in law passed away. He was a collector/hoarder of many things, knives being one of them. I sold some of his knives here on AAPK, but the biggest thing he had the most of was fishing gear, even though he never fished. I helped out my niece and nephews by taking on the duty of selling or donating a lot of things that they were going to throw into the dumpster. In sorting thru the many tackle boxes full of stuff, I found something that really caught my eye. It was a pair of military dog tags with a name on them that was unknown to me. At first I thought not too much of it and set them off to the side to deal with later. I thought they could belong to someone who is already deceased, or someone still living, no way to know. After thinking about it a while, I realized that either way a family may be interested in having them as something of a memento of past military service. My brother in law lived in a small town about 50 miles away, so I first did an internet search by the last name on the tags and town name. I got a hit on a woman who lived there, and found a phone number. When I called her, I was astonished to find that the woman was the mother of the individual named on the dogtags. After explaining to her the situation, she said she was not aware that her son had lost them. I asked if she had any garage sales in recent times, she replied that she had one several years ago and indeed there was a tackle box on the sale which my brother in law must have bought. As it turns out her son had done 2 tours in Afghanistan and lives in Sioux Falls, as does his sister who also is a veteran and is currently working as a councilor of returning military veterans. The mom gave my phone number to the sister and she stopped by my house and picked up the dogtags for her brother. I will always remember the look on her face when I dropped the dogtags on a chain into the palm of her hand. I also happened to think of the dogtags that I have from my great uncle, my grandmothers twin brother from World War I and how much of a family heirloom they are to me. I would like to solicit comments from those of you on AAPK who are veterans about your connection to your dogtags, good or bad.