Unless it was nighttime, or the weather was bad, and you were running out of gas - then it was a sweaty nightmare, like a monkey f*ing a skunk.
~ Dan Hampton, Viper Pilot
Neat to see this sort of 'untouched' (as in never added to) vet brignback. What is interesting is the large number of some medals and the absence of others.
No RK in this lot so one could hazard a guess at the time he assembled this lot it must of been hard to get a-hold of one.
One could see why the RK was still produced after the war there must of been a big demand for them while the KVKs and KVM were as common as hen's teeth.
I am green with envy.
I wonder how many good vet lots are still around to be picked.
Thanks for showing.
Ace
Very good question.
At this point we have the vets who did not want to sell their relics/souvenirs...the reason I feel they did not want to sell the items is because these items reminded the vets of their youth and of their friends from those days and the experiences they had...
...so the way things come on the market is (sadly) that the vet has already passed on some years back and the items are packed away in an attic/basement and only when the widow passes away and the children decide to clean out the house to prepare it for sale do we find these things now come onto the market.
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