Ex Marine and his Haunted Samurai Sword Bring Back     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Encounter_(The_Twilight_Zone)

A good close up of Fredrick March's character's Pacific War Ribbons  in the Best Years Of Our Lives.

The FSSF Rope on one 2nd Lieutenant David W. Cuddy, stateside during training, post unknown. he would be KIA at Anzio in the 3rd Regiment of the Brigade..

. Sherlock Holmes quote !!!!   I woke at 06h00 this morning to breakfast and shower BUT it was raining heavily so back to bed for a while and watch an old 1943 episode of Sherlock Holmes.   While searching through a missing persons house looking for clues to the disappearance Holmes makes a statement to Watson.    " Watson,  some day I am going to write a book about the obnoxious habit of collecting useless trivia ' , It's taken me a lifetime to understand and agree with that statement !!!!  It's hard to dispose of many memorable items which bring back those places and people memories.       Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent, May 23  2O25.    ….

https://ebay.us/m/BCiXgD     Some of it looks "real" as in they are actual military items, but whether or not their actual captures I have no idea.   He's trying to sell what looks like a Russian trouser belt for 45 dollars, and I just bought one yesterday for 10.

Would you be able to post a link to his eBay store?

Here are a pair of golden eagle liberty cuffs on a jumper I saw for sale on FB Mkt. 

Rank badge on the fathers uniform is for expert rifleman.   Son apparently got the apprentice seaman's top that came without the cuff stripes.  This apparently happened at some point during WW2.  

Please refrain from making non-constructive and false commentary. The image is of General Ray Barker. Your personal opinion is not fact and in this case is dead wrong. The man in the photo is not a poser and a simple internet search proves the point. As a new member please make sure to respect the forum to which you belong as well as the people who are on it.

when the 199th inf bde left viet nam, headed for ft benning in oct 70, i was one of the troops assigned to accompany the flags for the ceremony. we were taken right out of our assigned posts, and right to hold baggage with all our stuff. since the brigade was leaving everything behind for the arvn's, no one seemed to care if you threw some thing that was issued to you right into the box. i didn't see anyone keeping the old steel pot, but i sure kept my issue MP brassard. i still have it to this day. we came home on a C141 star lifter wearing jungle fatigues.