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To: marktwain
"I used to travel on the subway from Queens to Manhattan with a rifle," he said. "Could you imagine doing that today in New York City?"

Yes.....and I would want a bayonet, too.

2 posted on 04/02/2014 7:24:22 PM PDT by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: edpc

“Yes.....and I would want a bayonet, too.”

Yep, I was a barely a teenager when I carried a German military rifle and matching bayonet in its original scabbard across town. They were captured off of a German POW by a relative in Belgium. The State Police waved a friendly hello as they drove by while I walked across town with the rifle on the shoulder and the bayonet and scabbard on the web belt with the canteen. Those were different days.


10 posted on 04/02/2014 7:35:05 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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