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. . . and bend their spears into pruning hooks

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James Mattis

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I'm still in the eastern time zone, visiting family in Knoxville, and we went to the Museum of Appalachia today. Very interesting. And there was one little display that was a little bit "biblical" of you recall that verse about beating swords into plowshares and bending spears into pruning hooks.

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It seems that bayonets were not all that useful during the Civil War, and were even less useful in peacetime, and it would have been a shame to let perfectly good steel go to waste.
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[This message has been edited by James Mattis (edited 17 June 1999).]
 
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