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The wife in the retired couple across the street mentioned her father's service in the Black Watch in WW2, how he'd been LOB during the attack on Verrières Ridge, and reluctantly promoted Sgt when the battalion was rebuilt with replacements, then relinquished his rank to go back to the Carrier Platoon (the necessary MLU armour reference). I remembered a Prof. Terry Copp book on that particular infantry brigade and loaned it to her. She was overjoyed! There was so much more in that one book than she'd found elsewhere, and she ordered copies for her children. The lesson is clear, we enthusiasts often walk around with lots of knowledge that we might believe is well understood, but sometimes the people who have a need to know are oblivious to that source or those conversations.