Talk:Honorable Service Lapel Button

Ruptured Duck?
Why is the name of this article Ruptured Duck if it is a slang name for the Honorable Service Lapel Pin? Wouldn't it make more sense to call it Honorable Service Lapel Pin with a redirect from Ruptured duck (military decoration)? Jons63 02:31, 3 September 2007 (UTC)


 * With no comments against the move I moved the page to Honorable Service Lapel Pin Jons63 22:37, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

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Qualification
The article states that the emblem is awarded to "[US] military service members who were discharged under honorable conditions during World War II". This implies to me that all members of the armed forces qualify, regardless of whether they served in active combat, were confined to desk jobs at home or served in intelligence (G-2) outside the war zones. However, I have a source from 1946 (Rex Stout, "Instead of Evidence" in Trouble in Triplicate, 1949, story originally pub. 1946) which clearly implies that only combat vets qualify—specifically, a G-2 vet who worked in the US did not qualify. Unfortunately, the source is fiction, so not reliable IMO in WP terms. Ref. 1 appears to be a dead link, & I couldn't find in a quick search anything relevant. Can anyone clarify? --D Anthony Patriarche, BSc (talk) 17:06, 8 June 2020 (UTC)