During World War I, the U.S. War Department awarded Parker a contract for a “Trench Pen,” with dry pellets that turned into liquid ink when soldiers in the field added water. In May of 1945, the treaty of German surrender that ended World War II in Europe was signed with a pair of Parker 51 fountain pens belonging to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, who held up the two pens for the cameras in a V for victory
Today in Fort Wayne, I talked to somebody from Arlington that heard from someone in Lordstown that heard from someone in Wentzville that is related to someone in Lansing that heard about a psychic in Detroit that contacted Elvis, and Elvis said that he heard from a ‘good source that is high up’ that the day Hell freezes over, GM is going to reopen the Janesville plant. Probably just a rumor.