A Flock of Falcons

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Here’s a couple that I just like, even though there’s not much in the way of quality going on here:

The one has a wartime, plastic nose – the kind that never seems to work very well – and both are fairly plain, nose drive pencils . . . with two things going for them.  First, they have a really cool name on the clip:

“Falcon.”  Additionally, both have the same message printed on the barrels.  I’ve seen a few other examples, and every one I see has this same lettering:

“Let US Not Forget Pearl Harbor.”