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24th April 2020, 08:09 PM | #1 |
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Join Date: May 2014
Location: Ireland
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Hi All
I'm 51 and collecting militaria since i was 14 or so . My dad worked part time in England with an ex WWII para, Paul the Para had no children and he knew I had an interest in militaria. One time when I was over with my dad he gave me a lot of his insignia and his second pattern FS commando knife. I still have all these items but off topic for a Ethno forum. I have collected on and off since then but my interest in Ethno weaponry developed around 15 years ago when I kept seeing interesting items in house auctions and car boot sales at ridiculously low prices so I started to purchase the items. I have found this forum invaluable and ever so friendly, I cant contribute much but when i can i like to include my small bit of knowledge. Thanks and keep well Ken |
24th April 2020, 08:57 PM | #2 |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Posts: 5,503
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Retirement is a “penultimate journey”:-(((((
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24th April 2020, 09:47 PM | #3 |
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Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 6,736
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Ariel, one should never retire.
Why? Because everybody I have known during my life who has "retired" has died not long after announcing that they have done so. One must never stop some sort of useful endeavour. |
24th April 2020, 11:55 PM | #4 |
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: In the wee woods north of Napanee Ontario
Posts: 390
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I agree never completely retire or you will shortly expire. When I was about 14 I bought my first bayonet, a German butcher bladed type while vacationing in Bermuda. It is marked Solingen Foche and I still have it.
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