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Re: About those Support Our Troops stickers...

Posted by so on June 2, 2005, at 22:12:10

In reply to Re: About those Support Our Troops stickers..., posted by so on June 1, 2005, at 23:37:39

Ribbons are widely believed to have originated as a sign of support for troops during the Civil War, but folklorists say the myth originated with a John Wayne movie from the mid-20th Century.

Some veterans groups that now advocate yellow ribbons in support of troops note the irony that the color yellow is used as a symbol of support when in much battlefield lore yellow is a used as symbol of cowardice.


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