Attention: US Marines (and French), intel needed

[thescot]

Sand from Iwo - check
Beach pebbles from Tripoli - check
Small branch from Belleau wood - check
Stone from Montezuma - check
Dried mud from Nam - check
Dirt from Iraq - check
Mola shirt from Panama - check
Barfine Chit from Alongapo - check
Bus ticket stub to Beaufort, South Carolina - check
Piece of grinder from MCRDSD - check
Mold from Somalia - check
Liberty chit for Hong Kong - check
R&R bar guide from Bangkok - check
"Shopping" guide from Taipei - check
Coin purse from Oz - check
Elephant Hair bracelet from Laos - check
Rock from seawall, Beirut Airport - check
and on and on and on and on..........

Top, you are the Man!

For a Hollywood Marine, you're OK.

I washed all the Danang mud off I could, 'cause I never wanted to see it again. However, now . . .

[Riverkilt]

Semper Fi,

What a cool idea - especially the pistol grips.

All I have is a stone from between The Wall and The Statue.

Jeez fellas, I'm tearin' up....

Ron

[davedove]

I washed all the Danang mud off I could, 'cause I never wanted to see it again. However, now . . .

I never went to Nam (too young), but has anyone else noticed how all military posts/bases seem to have the same red clay. It's like they ship it in special.

[Finn]

Great collections & ideas, guys! I have pebbles from Chartres & Masada. My memories of other places are enough. Sent Iraq sand to my brother. Still have scars from red ant bites in Texas. Pics from Antietam, Cold Harbor, Gaine's Mill, Gettysburg, & Chickamauga, Yorktown (RevWar), Monticello, Williamsburg, etc.
Fort McClellan had red clay mud too.

[BoldHighlander]

I never went to Nam (too young), but has anyone else noticed how all military posts/bases seem to have the same red clay. It's like they ship it in special.

Until recently I had some old running shoes that had started out white, but the good ol' Georgia red clay at Benning took care of those

Just remembered that somewhere I also have a small branch from a tree that has been growing in the courtyard of the Alamo (between the chapel & the long barracks) since before the battle. It had a seed I was going to plant from it, but unfortunately the seed got crushed in travel somehow
(I had an ancestor that fell in the battle there with Crockett & the boys.)

[Ancienne Alliance]

I have a small stone from Devils Den (Gettysburg) & one from the top of Little Round Top near where the Maine boys stood (also from Gettysburg), both collected for me by friends or family.
I need one from Culp's Hill (where my ancestors fought as part of the Stonewall Brigade).

Hey Terry,
You've been so cool to me since I'm addicted to this XMarks-something that I would like to offer you a little something like... a stone, or anything that I can pick up in very special places here. And a scholar like you is certainly well versed in "special places" in Europe.
For example, I'm in Italy, by Genova in a few weeks and in Brittany in a month. I do move alot so please, feel free, don't hesitate laddy ! Put on the pressure !

Robert

[BoldHighlander]

Hey Terry,
You've been so cool to me since I'm addicted to this XMarks-something that I would like to offer you a little something like... a stone, or anything that I can pick up in very special places here. And a scholar like you is certainly well versed in "special places" in Europe.
For example, I'm in Italy, by Genova in a few weeks and in Brittany in a month. I do move alot so please, feel free, don't hesitate laddy ! Put on the pressure !

Robert

!!!
I'll be PM'ing you soon Robert.
Thanks!

:: T ::

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

I've got a couple of pistols working their way through the S&W custom shop which will be fitted with grips made from 175 year old oak paneling salvaged from the dining room of our home in Ireland. Another bit is off being made into the hilt of a sgean dubh, and yet another piece was made into a box with my arms carved into the lid.

I hope you get your special bit of history.

[Keys MacQuarrie]

Sheesh. All I have are scars from 'Nam.

[emolas]

Sheesh. All I have are scars from 'Nam.

Wear them with pride.