Word: insignia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sight . . . so as to look as much as possible like a girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered with my initials." Surrounded by poor children, Salvador wore "a sailor suit with insignia embroidered in thick gold," always carried a "flexible new bamboo cane adorned with a silver dog's head...
Still tops in World War II is the score of late Lieut. Colonel Werner Molders, designated "Ace of Aces" by Hitler, decorated with the diamond-encrusted insignia of the Oak Leaves with Swords of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. He shot down, according to the Germans, 103 planes, then was killed in the crash of a plane in which he was a passenger...
This wasn't like an American Legion convention. Then Vag noticed that none of the Legion caps had state insignia on them. They were all alike. Vag remembered that before he went away for the weekend the Yard had been full of men in khaki summer suits. He went closer to the crowd. It was still the Navy, he decided; they all had southern accents...
...windproof cigaret lighter gets a swell rating from 55% of the Army and 63% of the Navy (but fluid is not mailable). Other favorites: cigarets, leather wallets with insignia on them, pen & pencil sets, stationery, polarized sun glasses. The boys even want shoe brushes and razor-blade sharpeners. Special Army favorites: good regulation shirts and socks and extra government issue caps (of the right branch). But as Army and Navy provide full outfits for all except officers it is better not to send clothes unless specifically requested...
Still less deserving of respect are those who go to the extent of removing the ROTC insignia from their collars and the VERITAS shields from their overseas caps. If my small knowledge of military law is at all accurate, the men in the latter group are guilty of a courtmartial offence, namely that of wearing a uniform to which they are not entitled...