I think this may be the oak leaf cluster design, which is a military decoration. It has the three acorns. But then again it might be something else. I don’t remember where I got it. It looks nice.
Book: Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It by James Ciment
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That’s the Official Bookstooge Medal of Honor. It also doubles up as a punch knife so you are never truly unarmed.
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Or someone with an OBMH could just use the book.
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Uggh, those John Wick fanfic movies are just the worst….
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It is a military decoration in the US, also it looks bronze which signifies ‘mentioned in dispatches’ in commonwealth countries, and of course was used by the German army in WW2 as an addition to an Iron Cross award.
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When I looked it up I saw it was an American decoration. But I’d heard about it more in the German context. Didn’t know we had it.
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What were you mentioned in dispatches for doing?
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Never losing my place and not dog-earing any pages!
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What I hate about history is that, unlike fiction, you can’t just read the old stuff. And with all the revisionism going around, I never know if I can trust the new stuff.
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I read some old history. Stuff like Gibbon’s Decline and Fall or Macaulay on the English Civil War. But that’s partially reading it as history as much as for the history. But there was a lot of good history written in the mid-20th century say that I think is still very worthwhile if not better than books written on the same subject today. Sometimes just for being better written. In some fields the historical record is being advanced faster and further than others though through new findings etc. The history that has an axe to grind has never been all the popular, is hard to read, and I find is easy to ignore.
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This makes me more hopeful. Probably what I need is an essayist I could trust who deals with general history similar to what Stephen Jay Gould did for natural history. Branch off from there. No idea who that would be, though.
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