diggin4copper Posted August 9, 2021 Share #1 Posted August 9, 2021 Brought back by a China Marine….the Legation YMCA brochure is with it…Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirk Posted August 9, 2021 Share #2 Posted August 9, 2021 Wonderful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warguy Posted August 9, 2021 Share #3 Posted August 9, 2021 That is neat. Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katieony Posted August 9, 2021 Share #4 Posted August 9, 2021 Now that's certainly a unique souvenir! Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6th.MG.BN Posted August 10, 2021 Share #5 Posted August 10, 2021 Was that from after lunch. Haha Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Posted August 10, 2021 Share #6 Posted August 10, 2021 Now there's something you don't see every day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggin4copper Posted August 10, 2021 Author Share #7 Posted August 10, 2021 I wonder if I would get arrested if I tried to sell it… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usmcaviator Posted September 28, 2022 Share #8 Posted September 28, 2022 On 8/9/2021 at 9:32 PM, diggin4copper said: I wonder if I would get arrested if I tried to sell it… Probably if you were in Communist China....here in 'Merica, don't think so. But still, hard thing to prove. I don't doubt it's legit, but just could be any old rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted September 28, 2022 Share #9 Posted September 28, 2022 Taking pieces of The Great Wall would certainly be frowned upon today, if not outright illegal. Parts of the Great Wall fell into disrepair over the centuries, and this may have come from a rubble pile from the ruins at the time. My understanding is many sections have been restored, both out of national pride but also for tourism. Countries are very protective of their heritage sites. I saw a bored tourist in Greece almost get arrested for taking a small rock and starting to scribe a line on a larger flat slab. I think this was at Olympus as I remember the trees. Whistles blew and a flurry of unseen tourist police came flying out of nowhere. You would have thought she'd of assaulted someone. Some quick talking from our guide got her out of it, but she was pretty rattled for the rest of the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirk Posted October 1, 2022 Share #10 Posted October 1, 2022 If you look at photos of the wall during the China Marine era there where numerous sections of the wall that had collapsed, were dug out, pillaged by locals for other building projects. Rubble lay everywhere….not surprising a young Marine on a YMCA trip would pick up a small piece of rubble to bring home….at the time the wall was almost abandoned and rather desolate….of course since the 50’s that has changed….and now such behavior would as pointed out be frowned upon. I once meet an old China hand who at the end of WWII who claimed he had roof tile fragment from the Forbidden city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvage Sailor Posted October 1, 2022 Share #11 Posted October 1, 2022 "Take only photos, leave only footprints" USNPS Sign seen in many US National Parks & Monuments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
268th C.A. Posted October 1, 2022 Share #12 Posted October 1, 2022 Give it to Snyder's he'll sell it as a Moon Rock! (if he could) Ha Ha... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwb123 Posted October 1, 2022 Share #13 Posted October 1, 2022 1 hour ago, 268th C.A. said: Give it to Snyder's he'll sell it as a Moon Rock! (if he could) Ha Ha... Charlie Snyder is long dead and gone. But if he was still around, he'd amp up the sale somehow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deftec Posted March 25 Share #14 Posted March 25 Very cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12thengr Posted March 29 Share #15 Posted March 29 My Great-Uncle at the Great Wall, circa 1918. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aerialbridge Posted March 30 Share #16 Posted March 30 Confucius say, "Picture of honorable Great Uncle at Great Wall worth thousand dubious Great Wall small rocks." Ganbei. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12thengr Posted March 30 Share #17 Posted March 30 Yeah, I got a piece of the old King Dome (demolished circa 2000) just another piece of concrete, lost among the other rocks and debris in the yard.😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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