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Originally Posted by Andy Kelley
Wayne, thank you for taking the time to respond to my questions about relics and the history you are surrounded by. Old guns and love of history seem to go hand in hand. Andy
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Andy, those battlefields fueled a lifelong love for history I suppose. For me, growing up where something important happened "right here" was impressive. Being ten years old as the Civil War Centennial was getting started, didn't hurt either. It was a very impressionable time. The war was everywhere. Everyone talked about it. On the TV news, at the local store, at school. (We learned how the nobel Confederates were bested simply by the weight of the heathen yankee invaders. One southerner could beat ten yankees, but the yankees had fifty, which wasn't quite fair.
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Hardly a night went by when my grandfather didn't come home from "relic hunting" with something new in his bag. We'd set on the porch and dig through the bag and talk about what he'd found. He had books and books on the subject. He loved buttons. He'd find one he'd never seen, go get his "button book" and come back and look through it until he found a reference to it. If he couldn't find it, he'd look somewhere else. One of my great memories was not once, but twice finding buttons that he'd never seen.
Sorry. I'm rambling again.