Ulsterman

I vote keep them together. Odd things show up with research. If the Canadian Forestry chap was a poseur (and they've always been about since the days of the Roman legions I suspect), then it makes a better story in and of itself. However, sometimes odd things happen. I was an unpaid lackey at a local Senators' office and did mostly medal requests and veterans' affairs stuff whilst I was in Law school. Once I had a request come in for a Soldier's Medal that was supposed to have been awarded to a retired colonel who personally dragged a crewman out of burning bomber on Tinian in late 1945. After almost a years' worth of research requests and counter requests with the archives and some of the least intelligent people I've met in the Pentagon, i got the days' action reports along with a series of other unrelated documents that showed everything happened as the officer said it had, but all the men under his command (whom he had personally led) got the Soldier's medal. The officer had filled out the paperwork for his men, but his CO never did . I did not let this go. 9 (!) years later, after the man had died, we finally were able locate the duty rosters and the units' summary, which had the magical line: "Major Pray led the rescue team personally and was singed by the exploding gasoline tanks as he pulled Sgt. Walters" from the plane." Thus, a mere 62 years after the original incident, his widow got the medal. The original research requests came back with the statement" "There is no record of Major Pray having been in the Asia-Pacific theater". You never know.

Well, congrats then. Do'ya still receive mail at Winthrop as an Emeritis Prof.?

It does!! ALL the snaps of Argentine Falklands vets from 2 years ago are now gone as are most of the websites. Also ALL of the Cuban snaps I looked at (luckily I printed off some). Recently there's been a rash of Jordanian "official press photos stuff out there though-so I 'll post some for Owain post haste. The biggest blow came when the Pakistani military chat forum evaporated last January. It was amazing: lots of inside gossip. I suspect it went down after they began discussing which senior officer was committing adultery and with whom. There are some splendid shots on Google image of Russian veterans.

Yup- I would suspect that the manufacturers are still around and perhaps the contract records are stuck away in some "1992 paid receipts" file somewhere. Perhaps Lorenzo will find out who made these. By the way, Ed did you retire? If so, I have a present for thee.

From the 'net before it evaporates into the ether as so many do...... Oh to meet and speak with him!

ooooh-nice! :rolleyes:

Any medals from the Islamic republic on that board? Drool! :Cat-Scratch:

You mean the imported Italian marble in palaces or his extensive (10,000+) DVD collection?

Outstanding medal! Thanks for posting it! (It would look good on the OMSA site too). Too bad about the sanctions, but one good thing about the invasion, everyone gets to eat now and far fewer have died than the pro-Sadaamites claimed were killed by the UN sanctions (I remember leftie University Professors stating that 500,000 starved to death). Sorry Ed-I couldn't resist a jab. :rolleyes:

Nah- I'm with you-load of rubbish and the coins are very American in feel, weight and size: modern Brownian junk. Personally, I still haven't reconciled to the decimal system.

You know- seeing the title of this thread, this badge wasn't what I expected. :banger:

[ Ulsterman, do you know what that's in 1st place on the medal bar on the photo? Is that a silver merit medal on MCF ribbon or is it a real Military Carl Friedrich Medal... ? I don't know. What do you think? This man was decidely a ranker and immigrated to the USA in the 1880s.

yeah- I am watching that. the 1988 victory tinnie is $45!!

a photo culled from the web (it will evaporate soon) except for here:

In a word: "wow"

Nice: That one on the lower left is excellent! Bravo!!

Nice! No Munkasor medal too. Regular army?

Florida?

NCOs medal bars-still available for less than the sum of their parts.

You bought these for your wife?! The woman is obviously a treasure.

There were some HHOxs from Dorn.

I don't think so. No. I saw her plane go down in 1985. It flew right over my head as it descended towards the Auburn airport. A couple of minutes later every siren in the Lewiston-Auburn area went off and the fire trucks headed towards the airport. Her mother is a financial backer of the "Seeds of Peace" camp in Maine.

Good stuff! I would buy it. I miss the $20 days though. It wasn't so long ago.

I note the Russian Ambassador received one not too long ago.

bravo!!! Can you tell us more about the "Gom"s?? :jumping: