Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor to Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift of the Marine Corps, for "outstanding and heroic accomplishment" as commander of the Solomon Islands forces...
Last week a Distinguished Service Medal was on the way to the Group's Commander, Brigadier General La Verne George ("Blondie") Saunders, a blackly hirsute Irishman who got his ill-fitting nickname and a reputation for indefatigable practical jokery at West Point...
Hundreds of thousands of Roman Catholics in the armed forces wear religious medals. So do many Protestants and Jews. For wartime purposes, some medal manufacturers have given their wares a masculine touch by making them larger and heavier...
Fortnight ago Father Hugh Calkins, a leader of Chicago's perpetual novena of Our Sorrowful Mother, himself a dispenser of a popular medal of the same name, thought it time to say a few words on the subject. In his midget monthly, Novena Notes, he declared...
...Superstition comes from ignorance or fear. . . . During wartime superstition leaps sky-high in popularity. During danger periods, medals receive attention all out of proportion to their value. So the service men are being weighed down with medals and good luck charms (too often put in the same class). Department stores are advertising 'St. Christopher Good Luck Pieces.' And non-Catholics are being 'converted' to the phony brand of faith that says: 'Wear this medal and nothing can happen...