"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

A remembrance of my friend Richard Dale Jenks, SN USN, WO US Army

i found his name on the Wall

i was much older

than when we had laughed on the beach

cruised the strip in his old MG

and were shipmates crossing the Pacific

before he had flown his chopper

into some nameless Vietnamese hillside

when i found his name in the book i cried

without shame

then led my young son to his place on the Wall

where i rubbed his name into paper

and tried to explain who we had been

and what had happened

i can still see him

fifty years later

as if it were yesterday
 
Mayonardo said:
A remembrance of my friend Richard Dale Jenks, SN USN, WO US Army

i found his name on the Wall

i was much older

than when we had laughed on the beach

cruised the strip in his old MG

and were shipmates crossing the Pacific

before he had flown his chopper

into some nameless Vietnamese hillside

when i found his name in the book i cried

without shame

then led my young son to his place on the Wall

where i rubbed his name into paper

and tried to explain who we had been

and what had happened

i can still see him

fifty years later

as if it were yesterday
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Such poignant memories, Mayonardo. God Bless your friend, Richard Dale Jenks. We are all grateful to him and those like him who were gone too soon.
 
leghog said:
n Flanders Fields
By John McCrae
In Flanders fields the poppies blow...
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Mayonardo said:
Death of the Ball Turret Gunner — Randal Jarrell...
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Mayonardo said:
A remembrance of my friend Richard Dale Jenks, SN USN, WO US Army

i found his name on the Wall...
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checked the like box though i did not like
how should one show appreciation
for such a sacrifice
i liked the reminder never wanting to forget
we walk on the shoulder of giants
 
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Important Safety Tip!
If you have an ambiplanar knife tray like this that's been lying on a shelf, and you're thinking about screwing it to a cabinet, so you hold it up to see if the knives will stay in, and a couple of them flop toward you, so you clasp the whole thing to your bosom to stop the knives falling on the tile floor, don't clasp very hard.
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Fortunately I was thinking as fast as I was clasping. Maybe even a little faster. I'd hate to have had to explain those stab wounds at the ER or the Pearly Gates.
 
scrteened porch said:
Important Safety Tip!
If you have an ambiplanar knife tray like this that's been lying on a shelf, and you're thinking about screwing it to a cabinet, so you hold it up to see if the knives will stay in, and a couple of them flop toward you, so you clasp the whole thing to your bosom to stop the knives falling on the tile floor, don't clasp very hard.
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Fortunately I was thinking as fast as I was clasping. Maybe even a little faster. I'd hate to have had to explain those stab wounds at the ER or the Pearly Gates.
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Falling knives have no handle.

(meaning: don't try to catch one. Let it fall, pick it up later, when the handle reappears.)
 
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