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To: chesty_puller; Squantos; TomasUSMC; Travis McGee
Isn't it amazing how those damned openers have survived and endured?

Just to get a little sentimental now — simply recall the faces and names of the brothers we lost, who ate from a can of C-rat Ham and Lima beans or Meatballs with Beans in Tomato sauce you opened during a miserable rain storm, with the very same P38 you still use today.......

I hope now, in their new AO - they have better chow, served in a more peaceful environment....

Did you even once, ever dream that a can opener could become a cherished link and reminder of the past?

82 posted on 07/18/2009 10:40:25 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: river rat
Did you even once, ever dream that a can opener could become a cherished link and reminder of the past?

And they were free, five to a case. Whod a thunk it?

83 posted on 07/18/2009 10:59:16 AM PDT by chesty_puller (70-73 USMC VietNam 75-79 US Army Wash DC....VietNam was safer.)
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No and if I lose mine I will cry as if I lost a brother. .

Good post RR......good post

P38 era .....who’d a thunk it.

Stay Safe .....


88 posted on 07/18/2009 1:14:24 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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