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.It's nice to see a counterpoint to this.
He won't sell it.
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.
ReplyDeleteBut 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?
Alan, they did-in the upper-right. He's holding it in his palm.
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