I don't really own anything from my Grandfather other than a couple of belts and a few Western ties. My favorite belt has a horseshoe for a buckle with a 1921 coin on it with the phrase E Pluribus Unum. I always wondered about that phrase but I had never looked into it's origins. One night which happened to be the first night I had worn my grandfather's belt in about a year, I sat down and watched the Wizard of Oz. At the end of the movie, Oz says to Dorothy that he will return her to the land of E Pluribus Unum. Although the phrase is used as a motto for the United States, I prefer to think of it as going home.
Oh, and it means "Out of many, one".
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