I had a really good friend for many years who was a Navy SEAL with Vietnam service. Once we were talking about knives and he said he still had his KaBar and Gerber fighting knife. He was very fond of those and said he'd been offered a lot of money for them because he used them in Vietnam. He said they had a very sentimental value and he'd not sell them for anything. He said the KaBar had always done whatever he needed for general use.

KaBars do not cost a great deal of money.

He died of cancer, Agent Orange related, this past Feb. 28.

L.W.


"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)