07-16-2012, 08:27 PM
I'd suggest that you are not the "owner" of this medal. The owner (and only legitimate owner) was the recipient, known or unknown. You are no more than one in a chain of custodians who have the duty to preserve the medal, as received, and pass it and its history along. I don't think you have the right to engrave your name on the reverse either.
But, in an age where so many worship at the altar of imagined "private property" and desecrate history with gleeful abandon, I know I am in a minority.
And rarely will I feel more conservative that "CtahhR". I must go take a shower to clean up.
But, in an age where so many worship at the altar of imagined "private property" and desecrate history with gleeful abandon, I know I am in a minority.
And rarely will I feel more conservative that "CtahhR". I must go take a shower to clean up.
