People, I have let the thread re: the french survival knife run it's course. Alain seems to be holding his own with great Elan' ( thats french talk for style and class.) Mike has been mustered out. Aardwolf gets to stay. He may push some buttons, but the ability to apologise shows sentience of falability- a quality we all need. There actually is a french survival knife. It is a oversized folder with a few Swiss Army knife type accessories; corkscrew, awl,saw,can opener, spearpoint blade. They were written up @ a year ago in a knife magazine. Importation to the USA soon followed, but the price dissuaded me <img src="images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />. Please ,please, everyone calm down. Nobody is going to win any great moral victories here.This isn't the place anyway. War in all it's horror has enough casualties.