Word: ribboning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Hobby's Ribbon...
...March 22 issue of TIME a picture appears of Colonel Oveta Hobby. She is wearing the European Theater of Operations ribbon. Now has she been on active duty in the European Theater of Operations or not? The indiscriminate wearing of that ribbon provokes contempt among us soldiers who . . . literally sweat blood...
...Comely Colonel Hobby was entitled to wear the European Theater of Operations ribbon because of her three weeks' visit to England last November. At that time, the ribbons were given for service outside the continental U.S., however near and brief the assignment. On July 13 the regulations were tightened, and since then Colonel Hobby's shirt front has been ribbonless...
...African ribbon, with Star for action over Italian islands; the American Theater ribbon; the Army Good Conduct ribbon; the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters...
...happened to the rowing on the Charles in the cool afternoon sent beaming smiles glowing over the water, perhaps accounting for the vigor with which all four platoons bang "Under A Bamboo Tree," "It's A Long Way to Tipperary," and "Around Her Neck She Wore A Yellow Ribbon...