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Unit Crest Identification
I'm posting this here because "Briefback" looked like it was just for SF history - and this isn't SF history, it's Army history. And, I do want to give these away to good homes but that isn't really a "Buy/Sell/Trade" so "the Cache" didn't seem to work either. So if I'm in the wrong place I apologize, I tried!
I've just inherited all of my grandfather's Army things - which really means, that he was a pack rat and kept EVERYTHING over his 30 year career and then he was also really sentimental and decorated everything in Army. I sort of lost my mind when going through all of his stuff and felt unequal to the task of being the keeper when my dad told me that I was still the best person for the job because I'd be able to decide what was appropriate to keep in the family and what just needed to find good homes elsewhere. We were loathe to just turn anything over to the estate liquidators for someone to come in and finger through his life for a dime.
Bringing us to this - my first identification and adoption.
I have around 25 of these solid oak framed unit crests. We've taken out the ones that mean something to us, and the ones that we know already have clear homes - but there are some that I haven't got the first clue where to start because I don't know the name of the unit. I'm hoping that some of you can help me identify the units and then, if you have an attachment to the unit - you might want to adopt this nicely framed piece of vintage history - because you are the types of homes I'd really like to send these into. I'd guess these are about 30 years old. My grandfather died in 1982 and he likely framed all of these up somewhere between his retirement in 1962 and 1975 when he began getting quite ill.
Thanks for your help.
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"I had cast my lot with a soldier, and where he was, was home to me." - Martha Summerhayes Vanished Arizona
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