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Offline Brian

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Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
« Reply #25 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.
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Offline Fullstock longrifle

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Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
« Reply #26 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
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Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
« Reply #27 on: September 29, 2011, 06:58:04 AM »
Colonel,
Stunning work! Thank you for your service. Stay safe and hurry home. 8)
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Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
« Reply #28 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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Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
« Reply #29 on: September 30, 2011, 03:59:10 AM »
Beautiful work!!  I am an old 504 PIR trooper. Be safe!!
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Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
« Reply #30 on: September 30, 2011, 04:59:25 AM »
Great Horn!

And Thank You so much for all you do!!!!!!!!
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Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
« Reply #31 on: September 30, 2011, 06:10:14 AM »
 Col, Outstanding horn. Simply beautiful.  Thanks for your service.
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Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
« Reply #32 on: September 30, 2011, 07:43:44 PM »
A new face on an old tradition, outstanding!
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Offline Carl Dumke

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Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
« Reply #33 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
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Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
« Reply #34 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

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Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
« Reply #35 on: October 07, 2011, 08:20:41 PM »
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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.----

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Offline Carl Dumke

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Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
« Reply #36 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.
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Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
« Reply #37 on: March 05, 2012, 02:06:12 AM »
That is and will be an heirloom
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Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
« Reply #38 on: March 05, 2012, 02:11:35 AM »
Nice work Colonel!  Thanks for keeping us safe!  God bless you.
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Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
« Reply #39 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
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Ahtuwisae

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« Reply #40 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.
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Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
« Reply #41 on: March 06, 2012, 10:49:06 PM »
Col.,

Absolutely beautiful horn. Thank you for your service.

Welcome Home!

Vietnam71
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Offline J. Talbert

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Re: Afghanistan Campaign Horn
« Reply #42 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
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