grandparent wise
How Grandpa Got His Medal

Those of us who were in the military service - and in my generation only skiers went to Canada so that included everybody I knew - got a campaign medal of some sort. Mine was for the Korean “police action” and was an alternate blue and white striped ribbon from which dangled a pot-metal, half-dollar-sized bas relief of the globe flanked with olive branches or, maybe, palm fronds.

Read More...