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Wartime Booty
Fri, 01/17/2003 - 02:20 — deadprogrammer
There are two WWII trophies in my family. One is a polishing cloth. Another is a fork. I used the polishing cloth for many years without knowing what it was. Recently, I learned it’s origin. When my grandfather entered Budapest with the Red Army, the city was in ruins. The beautiful Parliament building was not that badly bombed, but all the windows were broken and shockwave scattered much of the furniture around it. So the polishing cloth came from a broken Budapest Parliament chair. So I’ve been polishing my boots with a piece of velvet from a Hungarian government minister’s chair. The second piece of Gramps’ wartime spoils is a German fork. It’s a regular fork with no markings, except that it’s extremely heavy and a bit bigger than regular forks. It’s the most ergonomic fork that I’ve ever ate with. It’s my dad’s favorite fork. This fork gave me an idea. Why do I keep eating with crappy modern utensils, when I can buy cool stuff on eBay. I’ve decided to replace all of my utensils with WWII era military ones. |
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It’s ‘GR.’ It stands for ‘George Rex’ or something like that, i.e. King George VI, who was king of England at the time. If you go to England nowadays, you’d see ‘ER’ on some stuff, for ‘Elizabeth Regina,’ the current queen.
So basically, that’s not a paratrooper’s fork; that’s the king’s fork. And the king’s paratrooper too, to whom it was for the use of.
Ah, yes. Somebody pointed this out to me when I hosted my blog at Livejournal. I lost all of the comments when I moved to my own hosting. Thanks for your comment!
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