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Unread 12-18-2015, 12:22 AM   #1
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For those of you that don't look at the Fox site, SFC George David Mosteller, U.S. Army Special Forces, went to his reward last week after a long and brave battle with cancer that he contracted while serving in IRAQ. Dave was an avid Fox collector and a hell of a nice guy. He was upbeat to the very end after losing one leg and then another. He will be missed.

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He told me the first Fox he ever purchased he got from you . And to the best of my recollection he still had it when he passed .
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He told me the first Fox he ever purchased he got from you . And to the best of my recollection he still had it when he passed .
He did and he told me that it was still his fovourite. I shipped it to his (then) girlfriend in North Carolina along & sent him a copy of Mike McIntosh's book on Fox to his APO. A couple weeks later I received a big box containing several T shirts with his units insignia, a very nice chess set also with the insignia and a Gerber switchblade knife. We corresponded often and when he was back stateside I invited him to the Vintager's Get-Together in Sanford at the Southern. I had not made a hotel reservation and all I could find there were full up. David invited me to spend the night at his home near Camp LeJune. After that we would always meet at the Southern. I will miss him a lot.

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He did and he told me that it was still his fovourite. I shipped it to his (then) girlfriend in North Carolina along & sent him a copy of Mike McIntosh's book on Fox to his APO. A couple weeks later I received a big box containing several T shirts with his units insignia, a very nice chess set also with the insignia and a Gerber switchblade knife. We corresponded often and when he was back stateside I invited him to the Vintager's Get-Together in Sanford at the Southern. I had not made a hotel reservation and all I could find there were full up. David invited me to spend the night at his home near Camp LeJune. After that we would always meet at the Southern. I will miss him a lot.

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Yes he had also told me you stayed with him !
He'd been trying to get me to come to the Southern for the last two years but it seemed I always had something in the way
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The last time David returned from the Orient, he showed me an array of acquisitions, some of which were way more than unusual. The word "scary" comes to mind. We sure loved to show off each other's "stuff".
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The last time David returned from the Orient, he showed me an array of acquisitions, some of which were way more than unusual. The word "scary" comes to mind. We sure loved to show off each other's "stuff".
One of the last times he visited me he showed me a bottle of Habu Saki he had with him to give someone . I'd heard tales about that stuff from others and the pickled baby cobra inside the bottle did nothing to change my thoughts on the stuff 😉
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To be honest I'm kinda glad I didn't know him about five years ago ! I got hung up in Narita for 26 hours and if I'd gotten with him there I may not have made it to the Philippines and of course my wife would most certainly not have understood 😉😱😂
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