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Yeah, Joe If I could only build in 1/48 scale, I could build every aircraft that was used in the modern wars. That would be from, "Well", what the the people who fought in it, called the Great War. That's what my Grand Pa Cole always called it, of course now it's known as World War One. Come to think about it he was illegitimate, the only thing his real father gave Grand Pa Cole was his name. Now his real father was a gunsmith, and from what I was always told a real smart man. He managed to fit all of his gunsmith tools into a big horse drawn wagon. He attached himself and his wagon to, I think General Johnson's army and fallowed them till Bobby Lee surrendered in 65'. And Grand Ma Cole her, "maiden name was Brown" used to tell me things about herself, one of the many things she told me was about the old solder's home in the small town were she grew up, and the name of that town was "Hemp". When I went to school at North Moore, our bus went by hemp street, the town by then was called "Robbins North Carolina". Grand Pa Cole's good friend, Big Jim Williams had fought in the Great War. When FDR wanted to help the English, "before the preemptive strike on Pearl". Big Jim took all of his boys to a doctor,"who had his palms greased with silver", so he found something wrong with all of Big Jim's boys, and that kept them all out of WWII. Old Jim was like a lot of the men of that generation, They were told that the Great War would be the war that would end all wars. The way a lot of Americans felt, they had lived through the depression, things were getting better, and in Europe the royals were feuding again and they wanted no part of it. They were even carrying signs and marching in the streets. Much the way their grand kids would do years after, trying to stop the war that shaped their generation, and me I came along between wars. "Oh yeah" thanks for welcoming me to the forum Joe.
I am a creature of mind, soul, and heart. My body is just something I have to drag along with me
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