You always have interesting information.
Thank you for posting.
I was in the military too late to note that custom.
Me too. And I'm pretty sure that my Dad [born 1920] and most of his WWII-era vets were as well. But my maternal grandfather, a veteran of the pre-WWI Pancho Villa raid on Columbus, NM and a WWI Navy vet, filled me in on the firsthand accounts he'd heard from Phillipine Insurrection veterans, mostly while they were still young.
My paternal grandda passed away two years before I was born; I wish I could have heard several of his *interesting* stories firsthand too.