It reminds Air Force Master Sergeant Jon Feiss(ph) of Christmas and Santa's grotto.

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The Smith collection started when Mr. Ziegler, a 60-year-old retired Air Force master sergeant, read about a collector of thousands of business cards.

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Simpson didn't have an engineering degree, either, but that didn't stop him from constructing a motorcycle with a bicycle and a stolen motor when he was an Air Force staff sergeant on Saipan during WWII.

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Air Force Master Sergeant Heather Adkins.

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Master Sergeant JON FEISS (Air Force): It's like being in Macy's again, you know, and you're nine years old.

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Staff Sergeant Jesse Childress -- an Air Force reservist, 29 years old, a cyber specialist who loved sports, the kind of guy, said a friend, who'd help anybody.

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