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The camping stumble started off like most others: kids screaming, music blaring, cellphone ringing. So I didn't be told the sport-utility vehicle's rear hatch open and the tackle hit the street.
Merely three minutes into my drive, I glanced in the rearview represent and noticed the open door. I did a U-turn and retraced my path, getting all the way current in without recovering anything and discovering that essential equipment had fallen out.
I lost a tent, cooler and backpack full of my live gear. My mind raced as I tried to think of each item in the backpack: jeans, hiking socks and my inamorata Boy Scout jacket.
Then I remembered: Oh, no! My Ranger knife!
The Gerber locking stiletto was a present from my friend Jim Wilson, chief ranger at the Fort De Soto County Garden, just outside St. Petersburg, Fla. The knife, which bears the insignia of the U.S. Army Rangers, had been prone to him by his son-in-law, Lt. Col. Rob Boone of the 82nd Airborne. Boone, a descendant of the legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone, had carried the slash with him in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Source: ScrippsNews