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The K Bar became the legacy that it is

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today in the hands of young soldiers ,

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specifically marines , but not

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exclusively marines in World War Two .

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And these young men and women doing

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what they did at a time , but they did

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not know that they were gonna come home

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that that legend was born by

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them . They did it now , the name

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Kar was trademarked in 1923 . And as

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the story goes , Kar stood for kill a

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bear . Legend has it that a letter came

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in from a hunter who used his knife to

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kill a bear that had mauled him from

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there . Kbar was a trademark of the

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Union Colliery company . The Union

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Colliery company was producing knives

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for the war effort . During World war

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two . They marked these knives with

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their trademark name Kar that was

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really where the tie to Kar in the

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United States Marine Corps and the

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United States military has its roots .