A touching tale.. thanks for putting it up. Most of the vets from that era are gone now including my father and two uncles. One of my uncles carried a Garand in the Marine Corps in the latter stages of the pacific theater. In 2007, the year before he passed on, I brought over my DCM Garand that he had mentioned he wanted to see. He hadn't seen one in person or touched one since 1945 and he never hunted or owned any guns of his own, (unlike my dad and other uncle). I was amazed at how, after 62 years, he was still so familiar with an M-1. He said that as soon as he picked mine up it all started coming back to him. No B.S. involved; that man knew the M-1 well. He also spoke highly of them; as a lot of those who have carried them always have. One of the adjectives he used was; "ACCURATE". I wish now that we had all that conversation recorded. It would be a great piece of oral history.
