Didn't want to hijack another thread so I figured it would start this one.
If you stop and think about things that were thrown away so easily by previous generations, that we would now consider nearly priceless, it really is quite interesting. For instance, how many WW2 era aircraft were blown up as drones in missile tests? I have seen videos of B17s and B29s being destroyed, and how many of those are there left flying? 2 B24s, 1 B29, and a handful of B17s? I can't imagine the days when 1903s and 1917s could be had for just a few dollars at hardware stores. Now, for a nice one you have to spend a lot more money, and lots of time looking. Thanks to the CMP they can be easier to come by, but how many of our grandparents bought them from stores back then and did things many of us would never dare do to an old warhorse?
What will my kids sit around and pine for the "good old days when...."? I tend to think it will have more to do with the liberties we are fast losing. However, if I am not able to get each of my kids an M1 Garand (by far my personal favorite military arm) will they look at them at gun shows where they are selling for 2k each and find it hard to believe I ever got one for the price I did? I don't know maybe I am way off. but it seems to me that the WW2 generation and all the things that went with had such an impact on my life, that I can't imagine what in recent history could have a similar impact on their lives. Before WW2 was there the same kind of attachment to Civil War era guns? what would they have considered "vintage"
If you stop and think about things that were thrown away so easily by previous generations, that we would now consider nearly priceless, it really is quite interesting. For instance, how many WW2 era aircraft were blown up as drones in missile tests? I have seen videos of B17s and B29s being destroyed, and how many of those are there left flying? 2 B24s, 1 B29, and a handful of B17s? I can't imagine the days when 1903s and 1917s could be had for just a few dollars at hardware stores. Now, for a nice one you have to spend a lot more money, and lots of time looking. Thanks to the CMP they can be easier to come by, but how many of our grandparents bought them from stores back then and did things many of us would never dare do to an old warhorse?
What will my kids sit around and pine for the "good old days when...."? I tend to think it will have more to do with the liberties we are fast losing. However, if I am not able to get each of my kids an M1 Garand (by far my personal favorite military arm) will they look at them at gun shows where they are selling for 2k each and find it hard to believe I ever got one for the price I did? I don't know maybe I am way off. but it seems to me that the WW2 generation and all the things that went with had such an impact on my life, that I can't imagine what in recent history could have a similar impact on their lives. Before WW2 was there the same kind of attachment to Civil War era guns? what would they have considered "vintage"
