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[hoskvarna]

My wife and I like to go flea marketing. 8 times out of 10 we usually come home empty handed. Yesterday I found something that touched my soul and that might sound a little corney. I didn't get it immediately. I finished that store and went to the next. But I couldn't get that thing out of my mind. I went back and bought it.
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It's a box.
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Inside, I found a small plastic enclosed paper tag. Like something you'd pin on your shirt at a convention.
It had a name, and an address.
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Steve helped me find some info on it.
I googled the name and found an obituary. He passed in 2011, he was a Korean war veteran, he was in the Airforce, Army and Navy. He was a Green County Deputy and I found out he was a range officer at one time, too. I'm thinking this box was his range box. Apparently he made the box because there is no stamp, tag or any identifying marks that would suggest it was manufactured by a company. Maybe, maybe not. Its very well made, too.
I was wondering, why would something like this end up in a flea market? This was carried by a known person. To me, it was a very personal piece of local history.
I asked my daughter why it was in a flea market? She suggested maybe it was from an estate sale. That would explain a lot.
Upon further digging and googling, I found this out.
His wife passed away this last August.
The 17th to be exact. She was cremated and placed next to her husband in the Missouri Veterens Cemetary. There was no service. They had a daughter who passed when she was 4 years old. No other children were mentioned.
So, apparently after she passed, there was, indeed, an estate sale by remaining family members.
I'm going to visit their grave tomorrow, touch the headstone/marker, and tell them that I now have this small piece of their history and that it is in good hands and will be taken good care of.
After what I found out, maybe its not so corney after all.

Not at all Steve
Almost put me to tears.
That is a heart jerker [emoji50][emoji27]


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[Jetmd]

Good evening Gentlemen,

I am sorry that I have been absent for some time. I hope each and everyone of you have a Great NewYear!

Steve, what you have is the competition box used by competitor's for NRA Pistol slow fire competition.
These are still in use today. Many of these shooter do/did produce their own box.

That is truly a treasure and his spirit will still live on in your hands. We thank James for his service.

May he rest in peace. I know you will give his equipment the love and respect it deserves!

 

[67L36Driver]

I bet ten USD to a stick of gum it came from an estate sale.

The flea market people camp in your driveway before your garage sale opens. [emoji849]

 

[Time's Standing Stihl]

My wife and I like to go flea marketing. 8 times out of 10 we usually come home empty handed. Yesterday I found something that touched my soul and that might sound a little corney. I didn't get it immediately. I finished that store and went to the next. But I couldn't get that thing out of my mind. I went back and bought it.
View attachment 104366
It's a box.
Or is it?View attachment 104367
Inside, I found a small plastic enclosed paper tag. Like something you'd pin on your shirt at a convention.
It had a name, and an address.
View attachment 104370
Steve helped me find some info on it.
I googled the name and found an obituary. He passed in 2011, he was a Korean war veteran, he was in the Airforce, Army and Navy. He was a Green County Deputy and I found out he was a range officer at one time, too. I'm thinking this box was his range box. Apparently he made the box because there is no stamp, tag or any identifying marks that would suggest it was manufactured by a company. Maybe, maybe not. Its very well made, too.
I was wondering, why would something like this end up in a flea market? This was carried by a known person. To me, it was a very personal piece of local history.
I asked my daughter why it was in a flea market? She suggested maybe it was from an estate sale. That would explain a lot.
Upon further digging and googling, I found this out.
His wife passed away this last August.
The 17th to be exact. She was cremated and placed next to her husband in the Missouri Veterens Cemetary. There was no service. They had a daughter who passed when she was 4 years old. No other children were mentioned.
So, apparently after she passed, there was, indeed, an estate sale by remaining family members.
I'm going to visit their grave tomorrow, touch the headstone/marker, and tell them that I now have this small piece of their history and that it is in good hands and will be taken good care of.
After what I found out, maybe its not so corney after all.

Very touching. Where is the military cemetery?

 

[Workshop]

Very touching. Where is the military cemetery?

There's actually two.
One is the Spfd National Cemetary in Spfd. My father's father is buried there.
WWI veteran of France. He witnessed one of his commanders kill a German POW machine gun operator with a pick.
My mother's brother is buried there. KIA in the Philippines 4 months before the surrender of the Japanese. 4 months. He was 19. It took 2 years to get his body back to Missouri. I have his saddle he bought out of the Sears catalogue on a stand in my living room.
My Great Uncle, my mothers uncle. He was in North Africa. He bought 640 acres of land, that now sits on the border of a National Forrest southeast of Ava, Mo when he got home from the war.
He died from a stroke in his front yard. I learned a lot from him.
The Missouri Veterans Cemetary you can actually see from highway 65 as you cross Spfd lake going south to Branson. It was started about 15 years ago because the National Cemetary was full.
The National Cemetary was started after the Cival War and was actually in two sections. Union in the main Cemetary and a separate section, that had a wall around it, for the Conferderate section. Most of the graves are marked "Unknown" in that section. A number of years ago the confederate section was included with the rest of the Cemetary under the premise that men from both sides died for their "United States" of America. I have a great deal of respect for both sides. I walk the Cemetary fairly often, visiting my relatives. One I knew fairly well. One I only met a couple of times, when I was a child, and one I never met.

 

[cobey]

Happy new years

 

[Dub11]

Happy New Years !

 

[moparnut88]

Happy new year fellas!!

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[Homelite410]

Happy new year. I just looked at my temp and if it was 52 degrees warmer it would be freezing. Think about that for a minute.

 

[Dub11]

Happy new year. I just looked at my temp and if it was 52 degrees warmer it would be freezing. Think about that for a minute.

Dang it's only -5 down here in Topeka.

 

[Homelite410]

Dang it's only -5 down here in Topeka.

This was 10:45 or so tonight.

 

[Dub11]

This was 10:45 or so tonight.

Just keep holding the line up there for us.

 

[concretegrazer]

Happy New Year everyone.

Happy new year. I just looked at my temp and if it was 52 degrees warmer it would be freezing. Think about that for a minute.

Thought about it. Still don't like it.

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

Just keep holding the line up there for us.

Well them guys up north are doing a great job of keeping the door shut. Not... So cold the emojis won't load on my phone.

HAPPY NEW YEARS GUYS

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

Burrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

ROTF

 

[67L36Driver]

Happy new year midlanders!

32* in the garage, -11 outside.

 

[teacherman]

Happy New Year, gentlemen!

My stepdaughter made it home safely from her party, we slept well, house is warm, no complaints. Newspaper's website says it's -7˚ (that's Fahrenheit, not Kelvins...), and I see a bit of a breeze. Good bed of coals in the stove, scooped a bit of ash out and got it started again. I like the unvented heaters' supplemental contribution to the Arctic combat; I think we're making the best possible use of resources this way. My friend Cris brought his new fancy CO detector over and checked out our place. One room showed 1 ppm, but other than that it was zero, even by the stove. Something to be said for an old drafty house....

Looks to be a beautiful day!

for a polar bear maybe.

 

[lumberjackchef]

Morning boys, and a happy new year to ya all!

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