Phil Webley:
In reply to Prof. Ralph T. Fulty (msg #62):
"Just good old American whiskey please. Ahhh, the smell of gun oil before bed; what a grand smell. May I borrow your cleaning kit, the Luger could use a good cleaning? The Luger, I ahhh, picked it up after the Great War in New York.
As for serving, no. I was a bit too young for The War and was doing time errr, other things after The War. I suspect I would not have made too good of a soldier."
"My pleasure." Storm grunted with a stifled laugh as he pulled on his cigar and handed Phil the cleaning kit. He started to assemble the M1911 with practiced hands.
Blowing out a blue plume of smoke he replied,
"you never know, there's still time! Make a man out of you yet. You won't be hunting Indians like I did on the Frontier in the 3rd Cavalry or charge up San Juan Hill with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough-Riders either, but I'm sure the quality of wars will improve. After that last fiasco in France, it can't get any worse. Well, that German nationalist fellow, went to prison after that coup attempt, he's out now and still stirring up all kinds of trouble. Who knows where that will lead?"
Finished assembling the semi-auto Colt "automatic", Storm inserted the magazine and thumbed the slide lock. The slide closed with a metallic "Snap!", chambering a round, and he slipped on the safety catch.
"There. Loaded and locked."
Storm sipped his rum and Coke.
"Damn, Coca-Cola has sure gone downhill since they took the cocoa extract out of it. Not as, I don't know, invigorating, as it used to be!"
"And to come clean, I was in the cavalry in Texas but by the late 80's war bands whooping it up and jumping off the reservation was a thing of the past. I didn't ride with the Rough-Riders (they were volunteers, I was regular US Cavalry) but I did make friends with President Roosevelt during the Cuban campaign."
"May I see your little trophy? More than a few Doughboys took Luger '08s from German officers as booty during and after the war and brought them home. I never did but always liked them."
This message was last edited by the player at 11:54, Thu 20 Oct 2011.