Saturday, April 15, 2006

Mystery Gun

That gun was Aguilar's companion for the rest of the war. It stayed in his pocket for 21/2 days as he lay in the basement of a rural farmhouse, bleeding from shrapnel wounds to his knees, waiting for the Germans to come and finish him off. The pistol became a token of luck and survival.

He won't sell it.
It's nice to see a counterpoint to this.

2 comments:

AlanDP said...

What irks me is that in all the anti-gun stories they are sure to illustrate with a picture of some scary-looking gun (to them) that doesn't actually have anything to do with the story.

But then they have an article about a mystery gun and fail to publish a photo. Are they afraid a picture of a hundred-plus-year-old rusty minature dueling pistol is going to give some poor faint-hearted soul a case of the vapors?

David Codrea said...

Alan, they did-in the upper-right. He's holding it in his palm.