Finally visited Val Trompia a few years ago and wangled a visit thru the Beretta museum thanks to an acquaintance I'd made at my previous employment (which had NOTHING to do with firearms, except the police kind). Also visited the Fausti sisters' showroom and factory. Did I see anything I wanted? You bet I did! Cost me a few well-spent $Ks when I got back to the US....
Hitchhiked to Stonehenge w/my wife from Salisbury one summer morning in 1968. Nobody there at dawn; you could walk right in. But the damn Russians invaded Czechoslovakia that same morning and we mostly got an airshow--Canberras, Lightnings, ugly ole Phantom IIs dragging a cloud of smog, RB-66s, BUFFs, even Meteor NFs! The Russian air defense radar must have looked like there was a very high wall over to the West! I got a sore neck from ducking every time a Canberra or B-57 went over at 0'!
My West Pointer brother walked me over Antietam/Sharpsburg over one long Autumn day a few years ago and explained what happened there one summer day. My "take away" was, no matter how hot and heavy the political rhetoric gets here, let's NOT EVER do THAT again!
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