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Show 6 Months Front Line Duty Gives Gold Sleeve Bar Badge of Honorable Service at Home Is Fourth Liberty Loan Button General Orders, No. 53, recently Issued Is-sued by the War Department in Washington, Wash-ington, provide: "A gold chevron to be worn on the lower half of the left sleeve by each officer, field clerk and enlisted man who has served six months in a theatre of operations during dur-ing the present war ." A war service badge bespeaking active participation in the conflict abroad. What pride the wearer will feel, in that little piece of adornment, "of standard material and design"! To the onlookers, what honors will It suggest; what endurance and valor! War service badges are not to be confined to the Army and Navy alone. The great numbers of those who stay at home may have a badge of service and distinction. With the issuing of the Fourth Liberty Loan button there becomes available for every loyal American a mark of war service, a badge of honor for war work well done. |