@hopeful33250 When he had asked me what I wanted, there were three things. His journals, his old Remington typewriter that I learned to type on, and his toolbox. He told me his journals were "nothing"; I think my sister might have them but will not let me even look at them. The typewriter he had given to a girlfriend but he never got it back. The toolbox he left to his grandson, who didn't want it; no clue where that is now. He did gift me a folding machete, an Army folding camp shovel, and a picnic blanket. My own journals, I have.
Ginger