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While I’m not really that good at any sort of art, one of my hobbies I figured I’d share with my few followers is my hobby of painting up leather jackets like WWII aviator’s jackets. The first two pictures are of my own personal jacket.

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Hello everyone. I'm gonna say right off the bat and say that this money is for both me and my boyfriend. We've been planning for some time now to move to Canada so we can start our new life together, and we believe that now is a good time to start. In recent weeks, my mother has been hounding me...

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One item I don’t show off much in my collection, mostly due to the feelings against anything Confederate in the last year, is an unissued Southern Cross of Honor. The SCH was essentially the South’s version of the Medal of Honor (which originated in the Civil War). The SCH though was never actually awarded during the Civil War, instead the first was awarded in 1900 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy who created the award and was given to Southern veterans in recognition of loyal, honorable service to the South. I picked this one up at a flea market last summer for $7 and took it to a guy I know who said it’s worth around $250 as is. A named one will typically sell for around $300-$750 depending on who it was awarded to and what battles they participated in.

Me again, if you could go to any fictional place,where would you go? Also, I'm going to make a tunblr account later today, so I don't have to stay anonymous

Oh, that's a tough one. Especially with a lot of fictional places being real (seeing all of Luna's papers teaches you things) so that's a hard one to answer. I'd have to say Florida. Everyone knows that place can't be real with all the news reports about there.

More pics of my OC with my amazing boyfriend's OC Glacier Wind

Got to meet one of the original code talkers. He was a very nice man.

The Navajo language was chosen to code U.S. military operations because it has no written form and is almost impossible for non-native speakers to learn. After the operation was declassified in 1968, the Japanese Chief of Intelligence admitted that though his army had been able to decipher many U.S. codes, they were never able to crack the Navajo code. Source Source 2

Those are some cool bomber jackets, I have a shoulder band for the Civil Defense of New Jersey as well as a patch I got from my uncle that says "Operation Iraqi Freedom". At my grandmother's house I found some WWI medals which had the State of New Jersey victory medal in a bad as well as some silk.

Thank you. Im about to start on a few more, two of which I’m hoping to sell. I’m also working on trying to find more stuff like the Civil Defense and WWI items like those. They’re usually a rarity around these parts except for the CD helmets which they sold surplus to the local coal mines.

I know it doesn't really fit with my blog but I really liked this picture I took while riding in an old WWII torpedo bomber that was flying in formation with a B-25J Mitchell. Thought maybe someone else would like to see it too

This is what I love about being a pilot, the beautiful views I get while flying along the river and being able to watch the sunset reflecting off the cliffs and the water.