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Originally Posted by Aircrewman
I am sad in my heart that the company isn't really the same as it once was.
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All of your sentiments are much appreciated. It was exactly thirty years ago, November of 1987, that the company was sold to investment bankers John had called in to help him finance his dream: to buy the then-for-sale Smith & Wesson. They bought him out instead.
I came to it slowly, but I did get there eventually: it was the Bianchi's company to do with, as they chose. They worked hard, sacrificed a lot, paid a big personal price. When they considered those who worked for them as merely supporting players, well, doggone it, we were.
And yet I wouldn't trade lives with them :-). Not for ten point five million dollars.