PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-570
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 570
MAY 2000
Yeah, that's
right
.
Then he gave it to me on
my
tenth
birthday
, and I wasn't much older when
I fired a round or two on a cold January
day in 1815 at old Pakenham's British.
I stood shoulder to shoulder
that day with the
best
President this country
ever
had,
Andy Jackson
. Old Pakenham
never
walked away from that
battle. Could be because
of this
very gun
.
We have the
finest
fighting men
. We have the
world's best equipment
.
Why
can't we end this
bloody conflict?
You're
right
.
We
do
have the finest
men and the best equipment,
but those Southern boys have
known something
all
along
that we
didn't know
.
They know
how to
take care
of their equipment.
They know how to
prevent damage
before it happens
.
My spies have told me
those Southern boys
learned it at their
daddies' knee.
Boy, it's your
tenth
birthday and it's time
you had your
own gun
. And, son, you'd better
take
care
of it, if you expect it to take care of
you
.
Now this here gun
started out
as a
flintlock musket. My pappy—your
grandpappy
—stared down
the
barrel
of this gun at
old Cornwallis' troops
at Yorktown, Virginia
in 1781.
Grandpappy told
me about that. He said
that's when he
won
the
Revolution
!
MAY 00
What
?
Tell me and I
’
ll
give a
case
of it to
every
soldier.
28
good day,
mr
.
president
.
what
brings you
to culpeper,
sir?
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