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Re: WWI medals
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2023 3:17 am
by DuncaninFrance
Re: WWI medals
Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2023 10:51 am
by Niner
Looks like that rule applies only to the senior brass. Look at the lessor ranks in the background. Maybe the generals should have suggested the oak leaf cluster and then they wouldn't have to have a row down one leg of their pants.
Re: WWI medals
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2023 11:36 am
by DuncaninFrance
Personally I think they look like a bunch of Darleks!!!
How on earth can you take these buffoons seriously
Re: WWI medals
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2023 5:11 pm
by Niner Delta
Re: WWI medals
Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2023 9:06 pm
by Niner
My kids used to watch Dr. Who on PBS back in the late 80's. All the shows were made before they were born and the acting and special effects were pretty lame. However, the shows were so lame that they were good. As the doctors changed characters over the years of the series that was just so wrong that it was ok too. Tom Baker was the best one.
I did a google and seems the series with fits and starts existed down to today.
Re: WWI medals
Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2023 6:12 am
by Aughnanure
But not as intelligent as Dr.Who’s foe, nor as good looking.
Re: WWI medals
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2023 5:04 pm
by Niner
Not about WWI medals but WWII medals. On a facebook page there was a statement about a guy in Vietnam getting a Purple Heart that was left over from WWII. The reason was that lots were made in anticipation of a blood bath in invading Japan. I think some other medals, like Bronze stars, were surplus too. I was awarded in Vietnam a bronze star that came in an old fashioned box while other medals received came in different boxes of an updated design.
I just now found this statement. Seems the WWII Purple Hearts were still in large supply into the 21st century.
So what happened to all of the other Purple Heart medals?
With a surplus of nearly 450,000 medals after WWII and as many as 120,000 still in stock as of the year 2000, they are still being awarded now along with newly-minted medals.
The WWII medals were refurbished with new, compliant ribbons so they matched the newest issues of Purple Heart medals, then added to the general stockpile of Purple Hearts.
While there is no rhyme or reason as to who receives these older, refurbished medals, it is sometimes possible for recipients to research theirs and determine that it was one of the surplus medals produced for World War II.
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