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  • Vern Humphrey
    Administrator - OFC
    • Aug 2009
    • 15875

    #16
    Originally posted by rayg
    The first version of All Quiet on the Western Front is my all time favorite. The realism of the tragedy of the human side of the war............
    Indeed. The Germans, like the rest of Europe, had a mass army. Every boy went into the army when he reached military age, and when he finished his time with the colors was discharged into the Reserves and continued to train on weekends and summers with other men his age. These men were aggregated into larger and larger units, so the German army had one battle-ready Reserve corps for every Active corps. The men in the Reserve corps were older than the men in the Active corps, of course.

    The Germans were on the offensive at the beginning of the war, with the Active corps leading and the Reserve corps following. When the Reservists reached the battlefield, they found the bodies of the younger men. The Germans called this part of the war the Kindermort -- the Child Killing.

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    • Roadkingtrax
      Senior Member
      • Feb 2010
      • 7835

      #17
      Originally posted by togor
      SPR helped sell a lot of CMP Garands.
      Purely anecdotal, but I've seen quite a few posts on Facebook groups, etc. about SMLE's. Something I was happy to see.
      "The first gun that was fired at Fort Sumter sounded the death-knell of slavery. They who fired it were the greatest practical abolitionists this nation has produced." ~BG D. Ullman

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      • lyman
        Administrator - OFC
        • Aug 2009
        • 11269

        #18
        Originally posted by Roadkingtrax
        Purely anecdotal, but I've seen quite a few posts on Facebook groups, etc. about SMLE's. Something I was happy to see.
        one thing that I can tell you that helps sell Milsurps ,


        Video Games,

        I sell some at almost every show to some young dude or his parents (if he is under age) that plays callofwardutykillemww3,

        I've sold 98's, 03's, Garand's and Enfield's (No1 and No4) to folks that used them in some game, and now want to own\shoot the real deal,

        the parents are tickled, one Dad told me he was happy he could get the kid to the range and out the house,,,

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        • RED
          Very Senior Member - OFC
          • Aug 2009
          • 11689

          #19
          Originally posted by lyman
          Very well put Art!!!
          +1

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