[Milsurplus] LM-18 and AC PS Questions.. More

[J Forster]

A lot depends on what the medals were for. If they were for high school track of some long dead and
forgotten relative, maybe it was the best use.

IMO, governments are forever asking the citizenry to sacrifice to no really good purpose. For example,
how much of your tax money is really well spent?  Precious little, IMO. Around here, they just spent
over a million dollars replacing some concrete curbs with granite ones.

-John



Hue Miller wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
>
> > I read somewhere that the aluminum drives were essentially propaganda exercises, designed to
> > give the general populace the feeling of participating in the war effort.
>
> Oh- almost forgot this, regarding metal drives: that book that entranced me lately (one of many),
> "Italy at War", has a photo of a metal drive there. Among the old baby strollers, wagons, and such,
> one person was turning in a display collection of military medals, mounted on a large display
> panel, about maybe 4 by 3 foot, a couple score medals with their ribbons on it. Now, that  metal was
> really crucial to Italy's war capacity,  wasn't it?
> -Hue