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I have some...they are starting to stack up...just got one called the St Benedict's. It looks cool. Do you have a favorite? I'll edit it this post with a pic after dinner, nap, dog walk etc... ![[Linked Image from live.staticflickr.com]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52458844072_4959532586_h.jpg)
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Plane Jane with the hole - special for pipes.
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Got one of the old conventional Zippos with a John Deere logo on it. Asked my favorite aunt for a light one time and she handed me hers and I thought it was way cool, so she gave me one as a birthday or Christmas gift about 30 years ago. Still have it.
Don't be the darkness.
America will perish while those who should be standing guard are satisfying their lusts.
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The one with a flag engraved and the one I use as a guitar slide .
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I used to collect them. Sold most of them.
My personal favorite is probably the one I got in Airborne school.
It has a skull with red beret with airborne wings and says FT. Benning, GA.
I never carried it so it’s in pristine condition.
My other two favorites would be one that my wife gave me for Christmas in 92. The other was one given to me by my best friend for my 18th birthday.
Still married to the same woman, and me and that guy are still best friends.
All three are in the gun safe.
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1962 vintage. Given me by my maternal grandfather a few years after he taught me how to smoke a pipe: ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/zaCcf6N.jpg) Just pulled it out of me pocket. I had lost it years and years ago, but I found it in the yard after the 10/19 tornader here in Big D. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/BrKzORv.jpg)
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l told my pap and mam I was going to be a mountain man; acted like they was gut-shot. Make your life go here. Here's where the peoples is. Mother Gue, I says, the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world, and by God, I was right.
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I like the Dee-Doo-Da model!
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I found one, while re-building a fence corner - it was engraved "Ernesto M".
Brought it home and showed it to my office lady (she was raised in that country), and asked "Do you have any idea who Ernesto M was?"
"Yes, my brother, he used to help Elmer (my FIL) with lambing sheep and fixing fence".
I gave it to Juanita Martinez on the spot.
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I collect them - that's a Zippo in my avatar. I used to pay a few dollars for one, some of those are now worth north of $1,000.
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The one I left on a pizza joint table in Lawton, OK back in 1973.
2/37th F.A. if anyone happens to find it.....
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The camo one got just about wore out. I no longer smoke,
but I have several.
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They gave these out to the crew in 1966. Plankowner SSBN 656 Blue crew. Been a few years. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/cCpvmf8b/9-E479690-C69-B-4275-9-C7-F-DD0-CE04-EFFC3.jpg)
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The one I carried with me in Vietnam 53 years ago.
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I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Zippo? I always thought Harpo was funny!
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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They gave these out to the crew in 1965. Plankowner SSBN 656 Blue crew. Been a few years. Now those are cool!
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Probably the neatest Zippo I had was from Vietnam. I had gotten it from my uncle years ago and Lord only knows where he got it.
On the lid it had “Vietnam 69-70”.
Underneath on the body was the name PFC Jimmy Pillow.
Underneath that was a picture of Snoopy in his World War One aviators helmet and underneath him was the words “F@#% this stupid war.”
It was in good shape.
I wanted to find the original owner or next of kin and return it but had no luck and instead sold it to a friend.
He began the search himself and ended up finding a Jimmy Pillow either in Texas or Oklahoma who looked to be old enough to have served in Vietnam.
My buddy tried to contact him but the guy never returned his calls. My friend even called an American Legion that was close to this guys home but they said they didn’t know him either.
We were pretty disappointed as we were hoping to return it.
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I have a few, all from my Navy time. Favorite is from Antarticia, the others from my ships. USS Flint from Vietnam time, and a brass Zippo from The USS Savanaha. Don't use them much now, however.
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I have these 2. The slim is a 1971 and the other is 2003. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/Ghftk0XD/IMG-20221027-204600.jpg)
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Have one my wife gave me when we were dating over 40 years ago piece of crap fell apart the next month
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