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I wrote this in the middle of 2005, and just stumbled across it again and thought it might do nicely here where I can re-read it from time to time. Amazing how things change. And how things stay exactly the same...


I was sitting here, thinking about a great many things. (Not really, more like one thing in particular, but saying "Thinking about a great many things" makes me sound far wiser than I am, so I decided to go with it.) Long, long ago in a land far, far away, ...

Growing up my dad always had a love for knives. Him and my Grandfather always had an old yellow case trapper in their pocket. By the age of 5 they had whittled, made me rubber band guns and slingshots. Much to my moms chagrin, I received my 1st case trapper when I was 6 years old. It went everywhere with me. I cut, whittled, stabbed, dug and did probably everything in the world that you should not do with a knife.

I still remember my first fixed blade. Mr. Tucker who lived 2 doors ...

If I look back a good sixteen years, I was outside in the woods of Arkansas wearing my dad's old BDU's with my prized Marine Combat Knife, a Camillus modeled after what we see today as the legendary Ka-Bar 1217 and various other models. I remember we had woods for days back behind that house, so I could do what I wanted. Now every thing that was ever cut was cut with that Camillus knife. I was able to buy it with my allowance, and over all the years I have had that thing, it only bit me once. ...

Man has been advancing since the dawn of recorded history, and probably since way before that. Human society has increased socially, culturally and most obviously technologically at a rate that invariably causes earlier generations to shake their head in disbelief. The technological advancements have never been quicker than since the early 20th century. Man has married the wheel to the combustion engine, we’ve learned to fly, we’ve learned to fly faster than sound and we’ve escaped mother Earth’s ...

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