Butlersrangers.
Oh dear, I hope that I, too, didn't seem to be correcting or criticizing you in any way.  I truly enjoy all the insights that you offer us so often and I know that you have a store of knowledge that I could never match.  My comment about always and never was actually intended as a self defense preface against some of the critics who i seem to attract when i post.  I have liked Krag bayonets for a long while and I like to share a few things about what is often considered a routine topic.  I agree that many photos of soldiers sharpening their bayonets might be for show, but it seems that it has long been so.  Just this summer, I saw several programs showing Marines, especially, sharpening their blades on board their ships before landings at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

Besides, I try never to offend other Michiganders.