Cool memories!

When I was about 5 or 6 my dad took me into Grandma's closet, pulled down an old cardboard box, and opened it up. I was too young to realize at the time but it was a shiny Luger P08 that Grandpa brought back with him from WW I. Dad let me hold it and put it back on the shelf.

My dad died when I was 9. Fast forward 30 years and we are moving Grandma into a home. I was cleaning out her closet and found the box, opened it up, and....pictures. The gun had been replaced by a bunch of old photos. I realize I should have been glad to have old photos but I'm a gun guy.

I asked Grandma, what happened to that old gun Grandpa back from the war? She said, "Oh, that old thing? It scared me to death so I threw it in the trash years ago."