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Message:: [QUOTE="Jim Dale, post: 8332412, member: 100459"]I really like your "Medal?"  My father and brother served in Southeast Asia and thank God they got home although tarnished.  My father drove into a tractor trailer.  My brother is on his 3rd wife.  My sister married a soldier that was an artillery officer and his tour of duty was as a forward observer.  Her marriage didn't last.  A dear friend of my wife and I was an infantry officer.  He was killed getting his men to safety.  I was lucky.  While serving as a runner, my C.O. found out that I could type.  I served in the Courts and Boards Section of the Staff Judge Advocates Office.  I was also exempt due to the Sullivant Act.  Your coin was made many years before I started collecting.  My father was a coin collector for many years and I was lucky enough to get half of his collection.  My brother got the other half.  I started collecting and my brother put his half in a jar and stuck it in storage.Again, Thanks for showing a coin/medal that I will be looking out to put it in my collection, along with my fathers medals and ribbons for 30 years of service having served in 3 wars.  He was a great father.  I dearly miss him.I have tried to get information of his service but all I get is that my request is being processed.[/QUOTE]