From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Fri May 20 2005 - 18:48:50 PDT
In Florida a one time license plate can be bought for one if it is thirty
years old or older.
If it is not thirty years old you must buy a regular tag and renew it
annually, if you want to operate it on public roads that is.
Sonny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve & Jeannie Keith" <cckw@comcast.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Honor and respect for historic vehicles
> HMV is a term I coined and got the MVPA to start using among others.
>
> It has nothing to do with the age. It has EVERYTHING to do with people
> and forces that would take away our right to own and/or use them.
>
> By associating History with these vehicles you put the people who would
> want to destroy/confiscate etc them into the category of people who do not
> learn from history or better yet, Book Burners!
>
> Mark my words: The day will come when there will be tremendous pressure
> to eliminate these war glorifying, polluting, danger to everyone on the
> highway
> menaces from the road or even possession.
>
> Also by NOT using the term 'Antique' you can include HUMVEEs too which
> are also important to save from the crusher (government or civy)
>
> We are ALL in this together and must forsee dangers and work to head them
> off before we are put onto the defensive like the NRA and guns are a lot
> in the
> US of A
>
> Steve AKA Dr Deuce
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nigel Hay MILWEB" <nigel@milweb.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 12:36 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Honor and respect for historic vehicles
>
>
>> So when on a timeline does a Military Vehicle actually become a
>> Historic
>> Military Vehicle ? Is a late 1990s Humvee historic, current or just
>> plain
>> privately owned? How do we decide or more importantly how do our peers
>> and
>> observers decide?
>>
>> NIGE
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
>> Behalf Of Steve & Jeannie Keith
>> Sent: 20 May 2005 18:31
>> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [MV] Honor and respect for history
>>
>>
>> I have a number of Army type HMVs and they are all labeled as
>> 1A 291E (1st Army 291st Combat Engineers) in honor of what
>> these brave men did at the Battle of the Buldge (they stayed behind
>> to blow up bridges when everyone else was running to Antwerp).
>> In addition, they built the longest M2 Treadway bridge at Remargen
>> over the Rhine when the Germans were trying everything to stop
>> them. I consider it an honor to have hmy HMVs so labeled.
>>
>> Recently, I talked with Col David Pergin who headed the 291st at
>> that time and he was pleased that I had done so. Made it all
>> worthwile....
>>
>> To throw a little fuel on the fire:
>>
>> The reasons I collect WW2 HMVs:
>>
>> No problem going on bases and getting cornfused with current
>> Can wear period clothing and not worry about getting cornfused with
>> current
>> No visits by CID
>> No Form 97's to worry about
>> Part of The Greatest Generation
>> Part of The Good War
>> I can tell some history about the Good War at displays
>> Can represent WW2, Korea, or VN early
>> Can go to the auto parts store to buy parts
>> Not beholding to HMV parts vendors
>> Etc
>>
>>
>> Steve AKA Dr Deuce
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Scherrer, Tim" <scherrert@missouri.edu>
>> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 12:07 PM
>> Subject: Re: [MV] Honor and respect for history
>>
>>
>> The question for me is this: are you wearing it respectfully and would
>> the vets be pleased with it, or not.
>>
>> We had the opportunity to meet the WWII company commander of the unit we
>> reenact at Jefferson barracks. He drove up to meet us. He is simply
>> touched and honored to see people remembering him and his guys, and we
>> have his full blessing as a group. It's great to have these living
>> references, and we could never hope to live vicariously what they lived.
>> All we can do is keep their memory alive.
>>
>> Tim A. Scherrer
>> MAJ, MI, USAR
>> Assistant Professor of Military Science
>> University of Missouri-Columbia
>> 573-882-0640, fax 0461
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org] On
>> Behalf Of Bobby Joe Pendleton II
>> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 11:03 AM
>> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [MV] Honor and respect for history
>>
>> Sometimes I wear period correct clothes with the unit patches and
>> insignias when we do shows and parades. I was never in the military but
>> I
>> have a long line of family members who was ,dating back to the Crusades.
>>
>> Why would I NOT have the right to wear a uniform, period correct or not?
>> The
>> right to wear what I want was given to me by the vets who fought and
>> sometimes died. I don't think anyone in their right mind would think I
>> was
>> a Korean war or Vietnam Vet, nor do I claim to be.. If we don't have the
>>
>> right to wear them, then maybe we don't have the right to own the same
>> vehicles.
>>
>>
>> Southern by the grace of God
>> "I...Shall Remain Confederate"
>>
>>
>>
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