title: Allied Military Fighting Knives: And The Men Who Made Them Famous
author:  Robert A Buerlein 
description: Robert Buerlein has been called "the best man in America on fixed-blade military knives" by the National Knife Collectors Museum. He is a member of the Board of Consulting Experts for Man at Arms magazine and has written more than 30 feature articles for leading antique arms, military and military history publications. A U.S. Army veteran, Mr. Buerlein is currently the president of the American Historical Foundation in Richmond, Virginia.
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  PROLOGUE
  
    
  
  Ulysses Freeman never went by his real name. In fact, very few people knew
  what it was. To his fellow Crips, and anyone else on the streets, Freeman was
  "Jimmy Two Blades." He had acquired the appellation due to his habit of
  carrying a matching set of daggers with eight-inch blades.
  
    
  
  The knives were looped through his belt and tucked into the back pockets of
  his faded, ragged blue jeans--one for his right hand, the other for his left.
  The pockets were always covered, either by a sweatshirt, a jacket or a loose-
  fitting T-shirt.
  
    
  
  This night, Jimmy Two Blades had his two blades, but he also had something
  else.
  
    
  
  Jimmy stepped back a little deeper into the shadows of the doorway. He could
  still see up and down the street from where he stood, and he watched the few
  people brave enough to walk along the sidewalk outside Los Angeles's Mc-
  Caurthe