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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LFCfan, post: 1480488, member: 26701&quot;]The image on the reverse is modeled after the WWII Victory Medal issued to servicemen and women serving in the conflict from Dec 7, 1941 until Dec 31, 1946 (so you could have received the medal and not have served in the war, as WWII was over on Sept 2, 1946 but Truman declared the hostilities over on Dec 31, 1946)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Per Wikipida- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_Victory_Medal_(United_States)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_Victory_Medal_(United_States)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_Victory_Medal_(United_States)</a></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">The World War II Victory Medal was first issued as a ribbon, and was referred to simply as the “Victory Ribbon.” By 1946, a full medal had been established which was referred to as the World War II Victory Medal. The medal&#039;s front depicts </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_(mythology)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_(mythology)" rel="nofollow">Nike</a> <span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">standing victorious, holding a broken sword, representing the broken power of the Axis, with one foot upon the helmet of </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_(mythology)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_(mythology)" rel="nofollow">Mars</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">, the Roman god of war, representing the end of the conflict. Behind Nike is a sunburst, representing the dawn of peace. The reverse recalls the &quot;</font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms" rel="nofollow">Four Freedoms</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">&quot; speech by President Roosevelt, with a laurel sprig, surrounded by the words &quot;United States of America&quot;, and the dates of the conflict, &quot;1941-1945&quot;. The edges of the ribbon revisit the multi-colored rainbow ribbon of the Allied </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_Victory_Medal_(United_States)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_Victory_Medal_(United_States)" rel="nofollow">World War I Victory Medal</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">. This again honors all the allied nations. The wide red center represents the new sacrifice of blood by World War II combatants. The thin white lines separating the central red band from the outer multi-colored bands represent the rays of new hope, two of them signifying that this was the second global conflict.</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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