Where can I buy a gas mask?

[Nevernose]

This has nothing to do with the weirdos shopping at five AM today, nor Terra alerts.

But the three days prior to Veteran's day I taught a mini-unit on WWI and WWI poets and authors. The kids (high school) really enjoyed looking at the pictures of mustard gas victims while we read things by Wilfred Owen -- the boys, especially, were pleased to see that poetry could be about something serious (though I can't wait to teach about carpe diem poetry -- a whole genre devoted to getting laid!).

Anyway, next year I plan to turn it into an entire small unit, and use a digital projector to put the mustard-gas photos six feet high on the wall, plus show a few clips from "Gallipoli," "All is Quiet on the Western Front," and "A Farewell to Arms." Maybe we could read "A Farewell to Arms," too, but they probably wouldn't get Hemingway, especially not ninth graders.

Having a gas mask would kick ass, and all six classes asked if I had one. Anybody know where I can get one? It doesn't even have to work, as long as it's dirt cheap.

[flvegan]

1. Military surplus store?

[tk2kewl]

2. here ya go

and i love the Christmas wallpaper that is the background for the page

http://www.perrets.com/st_prod.html?p_prodid=158

[Kilroy003]

3. Axman surplus has them.

I don't know i you have one in your area, but if you do, they have em'.

[bloodyjack]

4. I've got 3 of them

They're each ~15 years old, and I actually had to use it when I was 4 since at the time we attended class every day neath the looming threat of a POISON GAS ATTACK

That said, I second "army surplus store"

[happynewyear]

5. my grandfather was a mustard gas victim of WWI

I found nothing amusing nor interesting about it. The poor man died blind having grand mal seizures. Get a gas mask? Yeah right. :eyes:

[Nevernose]

8. I apologize

I am perhaps overly enthusiastic about this "teaching children" thing, and my original post was flippant in tone.

I think it's important for children to know all about the horrors of war. When I teach about WWI, it is certainly not in as lighthearted a manner as my typical lounge posts. When I discuss projecting six foot pictures of mustard gas victims on the wall, there's a reason for it.

I want kids to look at pictures like this...

...and ask to go to the bathroom because they feel nauseous. I want them to understand that Veteran's Day means a hell of a lot more than a day off from school, and that millions of people from all nations of the Earth died needlessly for some rich bastard's desire for "respect" from some other rich bastard. I want them to internalize the pointless destruction and senseless death that comes from war, and WWI and Veteran's Day is a good way of doing it, and for teaching poetry besides.

I want to teach them that "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" is just another "old lie."

If a gas mask will help me get their attention and keep it, then hell yes, I want a gas mask.

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! - An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime...
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, -
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori

[Nevernose]

6. MAD MAN ARMY SURPLUS & HIP HOP SHOE SHOP

I yellowpaged "army surplus" and there is apparently only one of them in Las vegas, a city of two million people (the town I grew up in in Texas only had 35k people, and four army surplus stores).

They've also apparently branched out into the business of retail hip-hop shoes.
MAD MAN ARMY SURPLUS & HIP HOP SHOE SHOP
6040 W SAHARA AVE, LAS VEGAS, NV 89146
Phone: [phone]

[Dr Strangelove]

7. Here

http://www.approvedgasmasks.com/mask-gas.htm