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</head><body><p>Shades of my misspent youth. When I was in the Army many moons ago, the M1 was still </p><p>the rifle of choice. Although my official long arm was the carbine, I had to qualify on both.</p><p>Of course, both of them (as well as the .45 automatic of the day) are no longer part of the</p><p>soldier's gear.</p><p><br></p><p>Many years later I was attending the dear, departed Timonium hamfest when hamfests were</p><p>disappearing, one by one. It had shrunk to the point where it no longer occupied all the buildings</p><p>available on the fairgrounds and one of the larger ones had been rented to some outfit that was</p><p>putting on a gun show. Having exhausted the possibilities of the hamfest in almost no time at all,</p><p>I decided to stop in and see the gun show before driving home. Walked in the door and what was</p><p>the first thing I saw? A rack holding both the Garand and the carbine.</p><p><br></p><p>It was <em>deja vu</em> all over again.</p><p><br></p><p>Dick</p><blockquote><p>On January 27, 2017 at 11:29 AM Richard O'Neill <richardoneill@earthlink.net> wrote:</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdRLfO9CU2U">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdRLfO9CU2U</a></p><p><br></p></blockquote></body></html>