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Galvanized Iron!

August 22 2004 at 7:40 AM
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1. Government Issue
2. General Infantryman
3. Galvanized Iron

Many utilitarian items of the era where made from galvanized Iron, including some that where made specifically for the “fighting man”. Galvanized iron was “strong, cheep, popular” and lent itself easily to “mass produced (conscription)” technology you could find it everywhere in everyday life. Now doesn’t this just like American Soldiers-the G.I’s?

Now I’m not saying that’s the origin of G.I. but it is just one more possibility.

It just shows to go you that you should never confuse a thing by its name or assume that a name is what the thing is.

Tom

 
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