Mid-1980’s tour jacket:     These are the seller’s photos.

If anyone is selling any of the original mugs I'd be interested, please send a message. 

Capt. Thomas Taylor (son of Maxwell Taylor) when arriving in Vietnam was with 1st Brigade 101st Airborne serving with B Company 502nd Infantry.  

Oh, Grant had a drinking problem for sure. He mostly kept it under control except for a few unfortunate incidents where he went off the rails. His wife solved the problem by sending their son to join him at headquarters and she  joined them eventually herself. With them around, booze was never a problem again. Some say that he substituted cigars to curbs alcohol urges. That of course led to the throat cancer that killed him. 

Speaking of Sherman, he readily admitted several times that he and almost everyone was wrong for doubting Grant’s plan for Vicksburg. He also credited Grant’s cutting his own supply lines during the Vicksburg campaign for inspiring the March to the Sea.   

He is extolling the evils of slavery quite clearly but he is also using the vernacular of the time and speaking with the norms and mores of the time. Lee is a devout man of God and he believed whole heartedley that the will of God was not known to man and that it would be made clear if and when God chose it to be.        Like nearly all Americans, he believed in the superiority both intellectually and racially of the white race. These were not abnormal beliefs at that time, they were normal and were held by academics and by farmers. At best the African was like a child, at worst like cattle. Lee was no different and while he may have been affluent, he was a product of his time. This is a great discussion but I fear we have begun to leave Grant behind. I love to discuss the complexity of Lee's personality and as you point out the duality of it as well. He wrote an opinion as a young engineer about the Michigan Ohio border dispute and found that the border as surveyed favored Toledo being part of Michigan citing the federal survey lines. Ohio claimed states rights as they had administered Toledo all along. Quite interesting as in a few years he would leave federal service for states rights. That was Lee and its part of what makes him so interesting. Grant on the other hand, like Lee was a well respected young officer in the Mexican War, but his moods and his drinking got him on the wrong side of many of his peers and superiors. That said, it seems the drinking was much overstated.      Scott        Scott

As you are most likely aware, the majority of M1 helmets issued during the Korean war were WWII issue McCord and Schlueter. McCord manufactured the M1 with olive drab painted chinstrap hardware attached between 1951 and 1958. The anchor stamp on chinstrap hardware was the trademark for North & Judd Manufacturing Company of New Britain, Connecticut. North & Judd manufactured anchor stamped chinstraps under contract from 1965 to 1969. The trademark anchor stamp was dropped from production when N&J was acquired by Gulf & Western in 1970. I have 3 boxes of M1 helmets manufactured by the Parish Division of the Dana Corporation under DSA 100-70-C-0252, which was a 1970 fiscal year contract, and none, not one of the chinstraps had the anchor stamp on them. See attached photos showing the box, helmet stacks and chinstrap hardware from this box. Therefore, the answer is no, the anchor stamp did not appear on chinstrap hardware prior to 1965. 

Speaking of Sherman, he readily admitted several times that he and almost everyone was wrong for doubting Grant’s plan for Vicksburg. He also credited Grant’s cutting his own supply lines during the Vicksburg campaign for inspiring the March to the Sea.   

Gotta have some fluff to keep me interested. Not that I'm required in this conversation. 

i didn't say he was a brutal slave master, but he was a slave master however benevolent he might have been.  And would you say about his 1856/57 letter to his wife?