Red Star pics

[Terry Hawker]

JB and Texag45,

The "...duty station to duty station" line has now been corrected in the MKL article. Also changed the "six" crates in the earlier post to five, thanks for catching that...Suppose my brain was thinking of sixty rifles and out came six crates. As my neighbor says, "This getting old...It's not for wimps!"

As far as the different quantities of "straw" in the crates is concerned, open a few more and you may be surprised at what you find.

Regards,

Terry

[John Beard]

Terry,

As you once pointed out to me, one of the virtues of internet publishing is the ability to go back and correct errors. You are to be commended for correcting the errors as you described.

J.B.

[JGaynor]

Looks like wood shavings to me.

Jim

i agree Jim. I think the stuff is actually termed "Excelsior". When the family moved to Germany and back to the States in the late 50's the commercial packing and shipping companies used it pretty widely in our breakable stuff.

Christmastime TV watchers will also recognize it from Darren McGavin's "major award"

Regards,

Jim

[Texag45]

Thanks guys.

I figured that someone was simply going to say: " The Brits obviously ran out of straw!!"