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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is available! Price is $250 ea (shipped within CONUS).
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/
10,000 post giveaway...a free Tali-whacker-WINNERS ANNOUNCED
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Very nice gesture from a true gentleman, Trevor. And congrats for the 10,000 posts. I am prior service and signed up on your website and also a very satisfied repeat customer. I can't talk too much about how I felt on that day in September because it still upsets me to this day. I was at work at a Federal government facility with my friends, many of whom were veterans, and we watched the events unfold on TV. You would not believe the anger and sadness that swept over us as we watched. I thank our military people that have fought to end this kind of evil.
Because the blade shape is reminiscent of a type that has been used for centuries as an all purpose blade, I would use the Tali as a camping knife. Thanks for the generous giveaway.
Because the blade shape is reminiscent of a type that has been used for centuries as an all purpose blade, I would use the Tali as a camping knife. Thanks for the generous giveaway.
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At age 14, my eldest son was so angered and inspired by the terrible events of 9/11/01 that he enlisted in the Marines (when he turned 19) so that he could take the fight to the terrorists. Subsequently my other son, joined as well, and now serves as an active duty 1st Lt. I would love to gift the knife to one of my sons.
Great looking family and such an amazing photo. Thank you gentleman for your services!:thumbup::thumbup:
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Thanks to all our heroes, living and fallen. Do not count me in, sir, instead please give credit towards any who have served or are currently serving in Afghanistan in honor of my nephew who recently lost his lower left leg and foot there. God bless you guys. Dave
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Wow, KH, thanks for the chance...while just a piglet I have enjoyed your posts over the year or so I have been drinking the kool-aid.
No service credit for me.
No service credit for me.
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Thank you, sir!!
I would love to get a new Tali-Whacker.
I have one already, but the one I currently have is too big. So, having another tallywacker would be grea...........oh wait. Tali-Whacker! Nevermind. Just kidding!
Does the military bonus count for disabled veterans? I've been out since 2004 and I don't often utilize my service to benefit in any way, but gosh darn-it, I'd love to have one of those babies.
I was actually on my first overseas tour on 9/11. I had just left Camp Doha and was at Ali Al Salem AB in Kuwait. I was coming back from the demo range with some Brits and I saw an unusual number of people running across the camp and folks sprinting for the phones and computers. We pulled up to a young LT who was crying beside one of the command tents and asked what had happened and between her sobs, she managed to get out the gist of the situation. There's no doubt that the attacks affected people all over the world in so many ways, and a lot of folks in the military's life totally changed on that day. In the aftermath, we got stuck in the desert for months longer than expected. a teammate of mine missed the birth of his first little girl. We all missed special events with family and friends, but you know, as much as that hurt, it didn't diminish the drive and the fierce pride that we felt as Americans.......Americans serving the country that we so dearly love, that someone had the audacity to attack. The way that I felt and the decisions that I made in those intervening days are what really changed my military career, and life in general. I was overseas throughout most of 2002-2004. I joined the military in a career that expects to see hostile fire, but in truth, I never expected to see or experience the things that I did. Long story much shorter, I ended up taking two pieces of shrapnel through the abdomen which shattered my L5-S1 vertebra and one through the groin ( insert bad joke about needing a new Tali-whacker ) which promptly ended my military career. The funny thing is that when people hear about my difficulties ( I'm not paralyzed, just pain and a lot of nerve damage, so I don't move around too well ) or, more importantly, men and women who have suffered and lost so much more than I ever did, they are so taken aback and almost affronted that these people had so much taken fro them, but that is not the case. I don't think that there is a serviceman or woman out there who would not willing go back and offer up all that they have to give again if they had the opportunity. Thats what some Americans just don't understand. Nothing was taken away........It was given, willingly, for a belief in our country, in the lives that we live, and the life that we want for our children. Military members take pride that they are able to make that sacrifice for others, even when those that they are sacrificing for do not acknowledge or even apparently appreciate it. In the end, though, spoken or unspoken, he men and women of our military know that they are not making that sacrifice for themselves, or even just for their own family, they aren't making it for the folks who blow them off and protest against them, or those who shed a tear when they cross their path in a wheelchair or see a photo of them holding their new baby with an artificial limb. The sacrifice is for something bigger...more than a culture, and more, really, than any simple idea. We all know what freedom means, but the freedom that all of those men and women sacrifice for......that is a freedom and an essence of America that none of us could ever describe in words.
Have a good one, and a big "Thank you!" to all of those who serve and offer their time, their hearts, their relationships, their health, and even their lives. You are all heroes. Earn your respect and wear it with humble pride.
Wilks
I would love to get a new Tali-Whacker.
I have one already, but the one I currently have is too big. So, having another tallywacker would be grea...........oh wait. Tali-Whacker! Nevermind. Just kidding!
Does the military bonus count for disabled veterans? I've been out since 2004 and I don't often utilize my service to benefit in any way, but gosh darn-it, I'd love to have one of those babies.
I was actually on my first overseas tour on 9/11. I had just left Camp Doha and was at Ali Al Salem AB in Kuwait. I was coming back from the demo range with some Brits and I saw an unusual number of people running across the camp and folks sprinting for the phones and computers. We pulled up to a young LT who was crying beside one of the command tents and asked what had happened and between her sobs, she managed to get out the gist of the situation. There's no doubt that the attacks affected people all over the world in so many ways, and a lot of folks in the military's life totally changed on that day. In the aftermath, we got stuck in the desert for months longer than expected. a teammate of mine missed the birth of his first little girl. We all missed special events with family and friends, but you know, as much as that hurt, it didn't diminish the drive and the fierce pride that we felt as Americans.......Americans serving the country that we so dearly love, that someone had the audacity to attack. The way that I felt and the decisions that I made in those intervening days are what really changed my military career, and life in general. I was overseas throughout most of 2002-2004. I joined the military in a career that expects to see hostile fire, but in truth, I never expected to see or experience the things that I did. Long story much shorter, I ended up taking two pieces of shrapnel through the abdomen which shattered my L5-S1 vertebra and one through the groin ( insert bad joke about needing a new Tali-whacker ) which promptly ended my military career. The funny thing is that when people hear about my difficulties ( I'm not paralyzed, just pain and a lot of nerve damage, so I don't move around too well ) or, more importantly, men and women who have suffered and lost so much more than I ever did, they are so taken aback and almost affronted that these people had so much taken fro them, but that is not the case. I don't think that there is a serviceman or woman out there who would not willing go back and offer up all that they have to give again if they had the opportunity. Thats what some Americans just don't understand. Nothing was taken away........It was given, willingly, for a belief in our country, in the lives that we live, and the life that we want for our children. Military members take pride that they are able to make that sacrifice for others, even when those that they are sacrificing for do not acknowledge or even apparently appreciate it. In the end, though, spoken or unspoken, he men and women of our military know that they are not making that sacrifice for themselves, or even just for their own family, they aren't making it for the folks who blow them off and protest against them, or those who shed a tear when they cross their path in a wheelchair or see a photo of them holding their new baby with an artificial limb. The sacrifice is for something bigger...more than a culture, and more, really, than any simple idea. We all know what freedom means, but the freedom that all of those men and women sacrifice for......that is a freedom and an essence of America that none of us could ever describe in words.
Have a good one, and a big "Thank you!" to all of those who serve and offer their time, their hearts, their relationships, their health, and even their lives. You are all heroes. Earn your respect and wear it with humble pride.
Wilks
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I was working as a auxiliary police officer in Nassau County at the time(the county that borders NYC to the east)...we were delegated to closing all major roads into the city. We were to ONLY let MOS through. In the coming weeks, many of us helped with the clean-up.
I will never forget the evening of 9/11 when I was going to my girfriend's house (now my wife)... After working all day, I was driving down Sunrise Highway. Sunrise highway runs next to the Long Island Railroad. Many people commute via the LIRR to the city, and at 11pm, the parking lots at all of different stations are usually empty. Unfortunately, many of the lots were still jam packed with cars...just thinking about how many people never made it back from their commute home brings a tears to my eyes even as I type this.
9/11 is what made me change my career from being an attorney to full-time LEO.
I will never forget the evening of 9/11 when I was going to my girfriend's house (now my wife)... After working all day, I was driving down Sunrise Highway. Sunrise highway runs next to the Long Island Railroad. Many people commute via the LIRR to the city, and at 11pm, the parking lots at all of different stations are usually empty. Unfortunately, many of the lots were still jam packed with cars...just thinking about how many people never made it back from their commute home brings a tears to my eyes even as I type this.
9/11 is what made me change my career from being an attorney to full-time LEO.
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Not entering. Just wanted to say that this is awesome of you! And I hope it goes to active military or a vet. (no offense LEO's)
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Congrats 
Thanks for the chance and yeah, Im in too.
Thanks for the chance and yeah, Im in too.
I'm in. Though I have no military service, my son had two tours in Iraq as an operating room specialist with the US Army. One tour was in Baghdad (the Green Zone), and the second tour was at a field hospital near Tikrit. He was in combat twice when the field hospital was attacked, but he also worked to save lives and to deliver a baby. I am proud of him.