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John;

Was this at the armor show you went too on Saturday?  You lucky bastard,
it must have been a great time..... see you on Monday at
the Game Parlor starting at 10am.  David

John M. Atkinson wrote:
> 
> Los wrote:
> 
> > > (Completely offtopic--I met and shook hands with General
Kalashnikov,
> > > [as in invented the AK-47] today!  First trip to US for him.)
> >
> > How old is he? Must be about 70 or 80.
> 
> Yup.	He was a tank commander in WWII, and he looks like it--short,
but
> stocky.  In his 70s--he was pretty young when he invented the AK. 
Old,
> but still highly energetic and a good public speaker (even if he
speaks
> no English--he was hauling around a Major General to translate for
him,
> which speaketh volumes about his clout, no?).  Got a standing ovation
of
> course--with a crowd of gun nuts and military buffs how could he not?
> It was at a tank museum, and they had painted up one of their (in good
> working order, as all their tanks are) T-34/85s like his old tank
before
> the Germans ventilated it.
> 
> John M. Atkinson