Karl, no, I see no numbers there, either. // Ed, pity I don't have any story from the veteran to share. I'd love to know what the markings meant and what his story was.
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Michael
Nos morituri te salutant - Supposed saying of the gladiators to the emperor ('We, who are about to die, salute you.')
'We are the lantern bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind' - From Rosemary Sutcliff's The Lantern Bearers
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