Posted on Aug 18, 2014
SFC Mark Merino
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Do you have a box/s of military treasures that you would run into a burning house to save? What do you have in there and why is it significant? Most importantly, does everybody else know the significance? You see it all the time. Someone inherits something in grandma and grandpa's attic and it looks cool, but you don't know the whole story behind it. What is in YOUR box?
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SFC Charles S.
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I have a lot of Desert Storm Bring Back Items. Iraqi Dinar with Saddam's Pic on it. KA-Bar, fired 7.62 rounds from AK's. Hodji Hot Sauce, Beddies, Sun Screen, No-Melt Candy bar, and Miscellaneous pieces and parts of TA-50. It was nice to have something in a display box from my Deployment.
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SFC Charles S.
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Iraq bringback items
Desert storm pills
Iraq desert storm uniform
Stars and stripes 24 feb 1991
A few pics of my Desert Storm Stash.
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SGT Ammunition Specialist
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I have an ammo can with a few of my BCT/OSUT graduation pics. I have all of my dress uniform medals, as well as other awards, promotions, coins and certificates. I also have my blue cord, and literally a ton of FM's, TM's, and other military related books.
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ENS Architectural Product Manager
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My Charge Book and Vessel mean the world to me.
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SGT Micheal Adams
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I have my ribbons and medals my dog tags, a book with pictures and certificates. I have a few things that were my dads, his zippo lighter with the EGA on it his rank his 3 ribbons I don't believe he was as proud to have as I am one of his C caps and lapel EGA & tie bar and his equivalent to a DD-214. His casket flag, my step grand dads flag. I have one of every uniform I wore except my tanker suit. I used to have my real grand fathers journal that he wrote in during WWII. I believe my sister has that now. Oh my prize possession is my dads Marine Corp ring and his Masonic ring I am neither a former marine or Mason. I thought my son may carry my dads tradition but he did not. My daughter is thinking about Army, AF ROTC right now and I'm super proud.
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SPC Johnny Velazquez, PhD
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I have my dog tags, Good Conduct Medal, discharged papers, and numerous photographs of my brothers and sisters who were stationed with me. My three degrees, BA, MA, and PhD Diplomas. I do treasure those mementos. Blessings.
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SPC Jerri Haaven
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Loved reading all of these responses. Among other items, I'm lucky to have one of the US Flags that flew on the USS Constellation during her last deployment, in support of OEF/OIF. My son's job then was a Signalman. I also have .50 cal shell casings that were fired while on a Family Day cruise aboard the ship; and a packet of leaflets that were dropped in Iraq telling the Iraqi's to leave to be safe before "Shock and Awe."

Haven't thought about a lot of this for some time.. Thanks for the prompt.
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SSG Richard Stevens
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Yes I also have my dad's purple heart from ww2 so yes I would
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PO1 Aaron Baltosser
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The last Challenge coin I ever earned for my last deployment. My citations in their padded envelopes. My picture album my wife put together for me.
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SSG Sean Garcia
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I have all my previous unit patches, coins and the Afghan leaflets we used to hand out
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MSG William Wold
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Nope not any more. I had a fire in 1999 that I lost virtually everything; then a few years later, there was a divorce; what I had not lost in that fire, was lost or ruined when ex took everything that I had ever had and threw them out the back door, then filed a restraining order on me. It wasn't till the divorce proceedings, when the judge asked if any of the assets had already been split, that the judge chastised the other party then ordered me to be escorted to the property and allowed to get stuff; which of course had been on the ground, chewed upon by rodents. I took pictures back with me and the judge was not happy. But still in the end, ex got 50% of my military and job retirements, and 50% of the house sale; which fortunately paid off all the debts..
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