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Originally Posted by CrushDepthCarl
The best souvenir though is one of the original seven copies of the Declaration of War with Japan, that rests on my mother's living room wall.
A few years after his passing I was watching the History channel and got a glimpse of him in an old newsreel when the shot panned accross the press gallery at National Airport during a visit by a foreign head of state. There he was in the front row.
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That must have been a great moment for you and your family. Don't forget to insure that document . . . and have you thought of having it professionally preserved so that way it doesn't begin to deteriate more then it probably already has? Loaning it to a museum?