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Mark Warner: “Does the Senator remember the collection of scrap metal? I will never forget it. In those days, the Nation's Capital…”

On the recordJune 6, 2000
Does the Senator remember the collection of scrap metal? I will never forget it. In those days, the Nation's Capital, where we lived, had great big trash trucks, and the trucks ran overtime. They would come down the street, and people would come out and put all kinds of scrap metal in the trucks. I remember the person who lived across from me came out with an armful of magnificent guns-- shotguns and rifles that belonged to her husband--and the trash guys looked at them and just threw them in the truck. I don't know that those guns ever got to the scrap heap, but I remember that as if it were yesterday.
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Mark Warner
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Reflecting on a personal memory related to scrap metal collection in Washington, D.C.

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