Soldiers Engraved Lighters from the Vietnam War

It is so hard to look at them and don’t help to think who owned them and what they have gone through in time . These lighters are the only reminder of someone’s only good time he is having on the loud and very tensed ground conditions and you can see the hardships on the lighter’s and that’s why atleast for me its a honor to have not just for a collectors item but for a reminder of some un sung hero and the character these lighters hold . (Smoking causes mouth cancer) ,  Cowan’s Auctions put up a lot of 282 Vietnam War-era featuring personalized and anonymous engravings chosen by U.S. soldiers, sailors, and airmen during deployment. An American artist Bradford Edwards has the collection that was compiled by over several years in the 1990, on-site in Vietnam. The collection sold for $35,250 on June 21, 2012.

Edwards was careful not to attack the opinions of, or specific plans, engravings of, but only to, ask questions about its authenticity and let the objects speak for themselves. As such, the lighters contain a wide range of ideas and opinions about the war and the anti-obscenity-laden army mottoes of reluctant draftees, the simple love notes of the homesick, the Special Forces 8 emblazoned lighters, noticeably absent of any further embellishment.