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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 4273934, member: 100459&quot;]I thoroughly enjoy the pictures of your varied collections.&nbsp; I&#039;ve always felt that those that have only one collection, is living a very narrow life.&nbsp; Over the years, I have collected many things.&nbsp; My father was in the Army (yea! I&#039;m an army brat.) and we travelled a great deal. When I was 9, we were living in Landstuhl, Germany. The next summer after we moved there, we toured Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Holland and Denmark.&nbsp; I was too young to realize the value of our tour.&nbsp; I did buy wooden shoes in Holland.&nbsp; I also bought a beer stein that doubled as a music box. I went to the top of the Eiffel Tower when in Paris and also the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.&nbsp; We went to a Tulip Parade while we were in Holland. Again, at 9, I didn&#039;t realize the value of our family trip in a 1950 Studebaker Commander, 4 door with my older sister that was 9, she died this past summer, my younger sister, she died a month ago, and my father (we was killed in an auto collision in 1997, and my mother who died 3 years ago.&nbsp; I am blessed by still having my younger brother, but he lives in California and cannot travel, and I live in North Carolina.&nbsp; Thank goodness for texting and phone calls. We have always been close. We almost lost him when he was in the navy during the Vietnam War, when his ship was hit. I&#039;m sorry for digressing.&nbsp; I have stocked my wife&#039;s curio cabinet with model aircraft that I have built over the years.&nbsp; I have about 2,400 unbuilt models that I&#039;ll never build, so I&#039;m going to donate them to the military in Afghanistan to give them something to do. When I can, I&#039;ll&nbsp; get some pictures of all my tours, models and other things.&nbsp; Oh, yeah, We went back to Europe in 1964 to France this time. You may enjoy some pictures my father took that my brother transferred from slides to a CD.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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