From: JEFF HAIN-MATSON (flmv@flmv.net)
Date: Sat Mar 02 2002 - 13:32:32 PST
give em hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
seems like we do go through this once a year though.
oh well..
jeff
DDoyle9570@aol.com wrote:
> It really is a shame that back in the late forties the government decided to
> release all the Jeeps, CCKW's and DUKW's. Those of us serious hobbyist's
> diligently seeking to preserve the Liberty Trucks, the vehicles our boys road
> into the Great War with, have to put up with all this information about these
> newfangled things. But I suppose that is OK, 'cause this is just a fad...the
> public will wake up and recognize that there is no historic value to these
> things...they are best left to the loggers, hunters and tour operators. Time
> to wake up folks, not many W.W.I veteran's left, we need to preserve their
> contribution! The country is covered up with WWII veteran's and their
> surplus equipment, what historic value could it have? Who would want to buy
> one of these new US6 Studebaker's fresh from government release and call that
> preserving? Poppycock....a preservationist would be rooting that W.W.I
> Studebaker wagon out of field and restoring it!!! I just found a manual that
> says that every-other spoke of the wheel was turned differently, now that is
> information worth sharing. If so much space wasn't wasted telling me about
> half-tracks, then folks could hear about my wagon wheel spokes.
> I can't believe the money being wasted on this War Assets Administration,
> and so much space on the radio too! What do I care how to buy one of those,
> what are those things called, a Bantam BCR, BRC....oh who knows what them
> thangs are called, I just know that it is hard to find a good Renault tank?
> It sure is a shame that when The Great War ended nobody tried to save any of
> these....what were those folks thinking? It is so difficult for me to turn
> the pages in my newspaper so I don't have to read about this new stuff. The
> other day my boy came home from school and said the teacher said Halsey was
> trying to raise money to preserve the USS Enterprise! Can you believe this!
> Oughta do that just like those airplanes, turn 'em into scrap, get some of my
> money back and hold down my taxes. I here over in France some yahoo is
> rounding up German vehicles from this latest war, taking 'em some place
> called Samour....why bother? Should be looking for one of those first German
> tanks, like they used in the Great War instead.
> Read the other day that the Spanish-American War Wagon Collector's
> Association went out of business, said something about lack of interest and
> loss of members. I am not surprised...nobody cares about that ancient
> history....now The Great War, that is worthy, saved civilization as we know
> it.
>
> Anyone see themselves?
>
> Regards,
> David Doyle
>
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