[BILLY D.]

model 70, i hope you sitting down for this one.

the main reason i carry a knife is out of habit. when i was a little boy i hated lining up at the pencil sharpener line before class. while everybody else was lined up i'd just find the paper basket and pull out my case pen knife and whittle on the pencil and return to my assigned seat and sit there and pick my nose while the rest were still fiddling around.

next reason, when some rookie took a chest hit and the zipper on his flak vest was now inoperable.

many practical uses for knives too numerous to mention, i would be lost without mine. it's as important to me as my billfold.