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To: archy; Squantos
There should be a museum of all the artifacts and curios invented by bored GIs. Naturally, the museum would be constructed entirely of ordnance crates.
142 posted on 04/11/2008 5:08:37 PM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Travis McGee; archy

Indeed....I collect trench art from WWI. Some very very intricate work on old artillery brass........:o)

Great stuff.....

As well......the ingenuity of the GI’s in the field are indeed amazing. We built entire condo’s underground using conex’s and newer larger sea containers , cutting HVAC ports and windows with flex linear shape charges because we couldn’t find a cutting torch. In some open desert bases we built, underground was the coolest spot and invisible in a region where one could see the curvature of the earth on a clear day......


143 posted on 04/11/2008 5:46:00 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet.©)
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To: Travis McGee
There should be a museum of all the artifacts and curios invented by bored GIs. Naturally, the museum would be constructed entirely of ordnance crates.

And would of course be constructed by off-duty SEABEES, whom we can pay off in beer we swiped from the Australians.

155 posted on 04/15/2008 12:56:34 PM PDT by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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