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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;journeymagazine, post: 2216140, member: 84&quot;]<p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">I found this at a local thrift store Thurs or Friday and liked it right away because it was a vintage pictorial map of Kodiak Island &amp; the animals on it.</span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">But when photographing it to put on ebay I found a note written on the bottom of the map from Harold Ward - the map&#039;s publisher - to a Ernie Fitzgerald.</span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">When I googles Fitzgerald I found he was a famous Air Force/Congress whistle blower on the pentagon&#039;s over spending who the military had fired twice &amp; he had then won his job back (with $!) both times in court - so famous that he was called the most hated person in the air force,</span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">So famous that President Nixon said about him, “I said get rid of that son of a bitch&quot; -&nbsp; And that statement was caught on the same recording that Nixon talked about the Watergate breaking &amp; ended up causing him to have to resign from office!!</span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">So I&#039;m curious on any thoughts?</span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">Is the map valuable on it&#039;s own? Is it valuable with the note written on it? (I&#039;m guessing the map was a gift from Harold Ward &amp; Associates) - and does it go from map collecting to political collecting?</span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">Either way it was a fun thing to discover!</span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="font-size: 16px"><font face="Verdana"><span style="color: rgb(20, 20, 20)">Thanks all</span></font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]254750[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]254751[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]254752[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]254756[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]254757[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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