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Title: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Carl Dumke on September 25, 2011, 02:57:47 AM: Hello,
As you can see, was rather busy during my down time during deployment, so I wanted to do my own campaign horn from my tour in Afghanistan. The eagle is a war eagle--looking for more of a modern take on scrimshawed eagles, kind of like a copper plate. I was deployed with the 82nd Airborne with the designation near the eagle. The reverse side has a stylized map of Afghanistan & Pakistan. On the base is a tribute to 9-11 and the Psalm verse--HE IS MY ROCK, MY SHIELD, MY SWORD. It is bordered by laurel leaves. The plug is hollowed out and made from a piece of wood that I brought back and I inset a coin from Operation ENDURING FREEDOM from US Central Command. I used a brass bar stock as a staple, securing the coin to the plug.

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Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Trkdriver99 on September 25, 2011, 03:05:16 AM: That is real fancy work Carl. I wish that I could do that.

Ronnie
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: alyce-james on September 25, 2011, 03:15:18 AM: Carl; I hope all of us on this site have an opportunity to see this fine work on this great horn. Absolutely OUTSTANDING work. We also want to thank you for your service. Thanks for sharing this labor of love with us. Jim & Alyce.
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: woodsrunner on September 25, 2011, 03:29:27 AM: Carl, that is so approperiate! You are keeping the tradition alive! I think what you have created is PRICELESS! (Central Command at McDill was my last duty station. Used to give "Stormin...Norman" intel briefs along and along!)
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Beaverman on September 25, 2011, 06:43:35 AM: VERY NICE!
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Habu on September 25, 2011, 07:04:39 AM: Very nice, and appropriate.
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Horner75 on September 25, 2011, 07:27:29 AM: You can see a lot of your heart went into your horn! ... Very nice!

Rick
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: ravenfeeder on September 25, 2011, 08:08:42 AM: Magnificent!
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: MAC57 on September 25, 2011, 01:52:42 PM: Beautiful!! Be safe and come home soon.
Mark
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: hugh on September 25, 2011, 03:06:29 PM: Thank you.
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: wattlebuster on September 25, 2011, 03:46:23 PM: Words cant describe the beauty of that horn. Thanks for your service :)
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: skillman on September 25, 2011, 05:36:47 PM: Wonderful take on an original style. Very well executed horn and very nice scrimm. That will truly become a family heirloom. Kudos!!

Steve
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: bigsmoke on September 25, 2011, 05:55:51 PM: Carl,
That is absolutey fantastic. Very well done.
John
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Ionian on September 25, 2011, 06:35:27 PM: Thank you for your service Colonel! Beautiful horn!
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: mr. no gold on September 25, 2011, 07:32:38 PM: An absolute classic, writ modern. Wonderful artistry! Thank you, proud warrior.
Dick
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: C Wallingford on September 25, 2011, 08:21:13 PM: Absolutely beautiful, Thank you for your service, SIR!
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Rick Sheets on September 25, 2011, 08:37:43 PM: Carl,
Wow. Tight design, but loose enough. Great engraving without being crazy-fussy. This is the stuff that makes me come back to this forum.
I am proud to call you a friend.
Rick
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: TinStar on September 25, 2011, 08:54:16 PM: Awesome!!! And may the Lord bless you and your fellow soldiers for your service!!

TinStar
Soli Deo Gloria!
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: bigbat on September 26, 2011, 12:11:11 AM: Very Cool horn, Super craftsmanship.

Scott Sibley
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: davec2 on September 26, 2011, 01:06:56 AM: Carl,

In the late 1970's, while I was in the Navy and endlessly at sea aboard one combatant or another, I did a lot of scrimshaw work. To me, it was exactly the type of thing a sailor should be doing in his minimal spare time and with no work shop or tools other than a knife and a sail maker's needle. For a soldier, far from hearth and home, making a powder horn and decorating it with the designs of his campaigns and sayings that touch his heart is the epitome of the art...and in its proper setting. Bravo Zulu.

I wish you "fair winds and a following sea".

God Speed, Carl.

dave c
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Hawken62_flint on September 26, 2011, 03:55:12 PM: WOW, great work and what an heirloom to remember your time in service to our country. Thank you for sharing and for your service. Thanks to men like you, I could and did enjoy a great afternoon of burning powder yesterday with friends.
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Tim Crosby on September 26, 2011, 04:58:19 PM: That is a Beautiful horn, well proportioned, designed and executed. The choice of materials, the coin and the wood, really set it off. Outstanding.

Tim C.
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Leatherbelly on September 26, 2011, 06:39:22 PM: Very nice Carl,wear with pride!
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Post by: Martyman on September 26, 2011, 09:39:21 PM: Col

WOW What an amazing tribute to your tour! Great job! I love the coin in the plug.

Marty
USAF
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Ahtuwisae on September 27, 2011, 02:25:29 AM: That Sir...Is a beautiful piece of work....I am glad to see you kept at it while deployed and very grateful of your service....come home safe and we are thinking about you and keeping you and all our sevicemen in our prayers.
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Brian on September 27, 2011, 07:49:13 PM: Amazing work, and a genuine one of a kind work of art. That will be handed down and cherished by your family for generations and generations to come.
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Fullstock longrifle on September 27, 2011, 08:11:11 PM: Wow, now that's a great powder horn! Excellent workmanship and you made the topic work well on an 18th century styled horn. Thank you for your service Colonel.

Frank
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: DOUBLEDEUCE 1 on September 29, 2011, 06:58:04 AM: Colonel,
Stunning work! Thank you for your service. Stay safe and hurry home. 8)
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Sequatchie Rifle on September 30, 2011, 02:22:06 AM: Great work Carl. Who in the Division did you serve with? I was with the 307th Engrs and later the 20th Engineer Bde. My son was with the 505th PIR. You have inspired me! Thanks for sharing.

Bill
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Post by: Dr. Tim-Boone on September 30, 2011, 03:59:10 AM: Beautiful work!! I am an old 504 PIR trooper. Be safe!!
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Post by: smshea on September 30, 2011, 04:59:25 AM: Great Horn!

And Thank You so much for all you do!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: redwood on September 30, 2011, 06:10:14 AM: Col, Outstanding horn. Simply beautiful. Thanks for your service.
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Dancy on September 30, 2011, 07:43:44 PM: A new face on an old tradition, outstanding!
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Carl Dumke on October 04, 2011, 04:57:03 PM: All,
Thank you so much for the kind words. If I may, for a brief moment, ask that you keep in your hearts and prayers the 253 fallen soldiers that paid the ultimate sacrifice during my deployment. I also humbly ask that you pray that their families find peace. President Lincoln's last line in a condolence letter to Mrs Bixby (a widow who was thought to have lost her 5 sons in the Civil War) resonates within me as I think of my fallen comrades. They too have "laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom."

Never Forget
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: DarryH on October 06, 2011, 04:57:01 PM: I love it.

My uncle was in the 17th Airborne in WWII.
His outfit was pretty much wiped out on D-Day, so they were
thrown in with the 101st, and later into the 82nd which is
where he was when he was sent home at the end of the war.

Thank you for your service to our country.

Good Shootin!!
DarryH
Nebraska
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Ahtuwisae on October 07, 2011, 08:20:41 PM: Executive Mansion
Washington, D.C.
November 21, 1864

Dear Madam,

I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.

I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.

I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
Abraham Lincoln

---All thoughts and prayers are with you and your lost comrades.----
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Carl Dumke on March 04, 2012, 11:22:30 PM: Quote from: Sequatchie Rifle on September 30, 2011, 02:22:06 AM
Great work Carl. Who in the Division did you serve with? I was with the 307th Engrs and later the 20th Engineer Bde. My son was with the 505th PIR. You have inspired me! Thanks for sharing.

Bill
Bill,
Sorry to get back so late, but it is hectic to say the least. Worked for MG now LTG Rodriguez and BG now MG Votel.
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: roamer on March 05, 2012, 02:06:12 AM: That is and will be an heirloom
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Post by: Shreckmeister on March 05, 2012, 02:11:35 AM: Nice work Colonel! Thanks for keeping us safe! God bless you.
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: hornturner on March 05, 2012, 04:06:39 AM: Carl;
I saw the horn in person this weekend at the Horn Guild annual conference. It is truly an impressive horn. Really nice work. Fascinating to see the old style worked into your experiences of the 21st century.
Great job!
Art DeCamp
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Ahtuwisae on March 05, 2012, 04:45:52 AM: Carl..I too had a chance to see the horn in person...great job!! I believe it is coming back to you with a ribbon for your efforts.

Regards, John DeWald.
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: Vietnam71 on March 06, 2012, 10:49:06 PM: Col.,

Absolutely beautiful horn. Thank you for your service.

Welcome Home!

Vietnam71
Charlie
Title: Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
Post by: J. Talbert on March 12, 2012, 08:29:59 AM: Col.,

My compliments on the wonderful horn.

And my thanks to you and all your comrades for your service and sacrifice!

Jeff