Hi folks, Jack Spirco here.

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Let's talk about guns in a half year way.

Now, you know, I just mentioned the World War II generation.

And specifically, my grandfather, the one that served in the Pacific Theater on a battleship,

he was the hunter.

My other grandfather, he knew guns, he spent time with me, he taught me about guns, he took me shooting, but it wasn't his thing.

He did it because I was his grandson, and he was that kind of guy.

He would do things for you because you were his grandson.

My other grandfather, he wasn't the guy that enlisted in the army.

He wasn't the guy that became an officer.

He was a guy that was drafted as a young man.

And when I say young man, back then people were drafted in their 30s.

I think he was in his late 20s, if I remember right, when he was drafted in the World War II, maybe a little bit older.

And he was drafted in, he was able to at least have some say in to what service, if I remember his explaining it correct, but he was drafted into the Navy.

He served, and as soon as the war was over,

he got out.

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