eric wrote:
Gene, thats a ripper of a knife! I was expecting something entirely different as lately I have had several bovine problems that involvet the other sort of Vet. I guess I was have expection a bloat knife.... I too would like to hear/read the long story.
Thanks,
Eric
Not really that long I suppose.
This all started when I posted a question on another forum asking the folks there if they would vote on what wood to use, since I couldn't make up my mind which of a half dozen different species with good figure to use. Some of the woods were a gift from one of y'all on this forum, including the Maple that turned out to be the favorite. In the process, I decided to hold a random drawing of all those who had voted - about 30 - the winner would get the finished knife.
Jones was the lucky guy and at the time I had no idea he was a Vietnam vet. In subsequent discussions I discovered he is the same age as me, and served in VN at the same time, although in a different part of the country (I was in DaNang about 140miles north of An Khe). He was a platoon Sgt ( Army) and was wounded at An Khe in Sept of '66, and received a disability discharge.
He and his wife currently live in a small southern MS town, and my wife and I reside in a small northeast MS town.
I thought there had to be some kind of karma, for him to win the knife given our similar life histories.