It is not just the gold pocket watches and wrist watches that are being destroyed for their precious metal content, it is sterling pieces. Recently I talked about how I bought a pair of WW II sterling bomber pilot wings. I got them off a guy that was going to scrap them for the sterling content. Now these belonged to a member of our greatest generation that fought in WW II in the air war. All they are worth to anyone is the price of the scrap silver. I could cry ... Going to donate them to the VFW display case

How about grandma's silver tea set she got for her wedding ... does that go too. Honestly our history is going off to the scrap yard.