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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ontime1969, post: 810734, member: 19596&quot;]Although I am disappointed big time that &quot;Teddy&quot; was not placed on this series, I&#039;m still very excited about collecting them.&nbsp; I love the national park system, Ive been sleeping, playing, and enjoying them my whole life.&nbsp;&nbsp; 40 years of enjoyment and many more to come, give me a different outlook on them than maybe some other people.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My parents and grandparents turned me on to the outdoors very, very early in life.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have photos of me at 2yrs old camping with hippy looking parents in National parks on the East coast and in the South.&nbsp; I have many fond memories of the 1970&#039;s with bell bottoms running around with the other camp children in the Smokey mountains.&nbsp; Boy Scouts filled my needs for Park exposure in my pre-teens and teenage years.&nbsp; &nbsp; In my 20&#039;s and early 30&#039;s I spent tons of time in the back country of many of our California Parks. From snowboarding down the north face of Mt Lasson to the many of nights sleeping in my tent in Yosemite valley and Tuolumne Meadows resting from climbing all day.&nbsp;&nbsp; My wife got her 2nd bachelor degree in Shenandoah University right on the edge of the park in Winchester Virginia, what beautiful Autumns we enjoyed there.&nbsp; &nbsp; Now we have our own family and we are introducing the National Park system to them as my parents did me.&nbsp;&nbsp; My four and half year old has already played (carefully mind you) in the Colorado river at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and we are already planning our spring trip to Zion NP in Utah.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The other very important thing for me is that many of these coins will be representing important battlefields and other important US Historical sites.&nbsp; Think about this.&nbsp; &nbsp; Saratoga... our first significant American military victory of the Revolution.&nbsp;&nbsp; When I think of Fort McHenry National Monument, Im thinking our national anthem.&nbsp;&nbsp; I can&#039;t even put into words how I feel about the civil war parks, from Gettysburg to Vicksburg and the others that will be represented.</p><p><br /></p><p>So for me the Park system is more that just a place, its really part of a Idea.&nbsp;&nbsp; Collecting these the National Park Quarters is much more than just a series of coins in my eyes.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is a small representation about the beauty of our country and the fact that these places are available for anyone to see and enjoy.&nbsp; In a way these coins will represent why I began to collect our US coins in the very beginning.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I am so sorry that these coins are not going to be received by everyone with the same emotion that I am placing on them.&nbsp;&nbsp; But rightly or wrongly this is how if feel about them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k152/ontime_1969/family%20photos/jewels_parkhat.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My daughter after 2 hotel recovery days following her first adventure to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.&nbsp; Do you like here ranger hat?&nbsp; She loves it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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