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Penn State adds names, ribbon to football jerseysThe Associated Press – 1 hour 28 minutes ago STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- Players' names are being added to Penn State's football jerseys for the coming season, the university announced Tuesday, along with blue ribbons to show support for victims of child abuse. The team's generic look - blue-and-white, no names on jerseys - has long been a trademark and was associated with the buttoned-down style of former coach Joe Paterno, who was fired last year after his former assistant Jerry Sandusky was arrested on child molestation charges. School officials said adding...

Pink ribbons are cute. They have become very trendy. Everyone has caught on to them, too. A couple of airlines wear pink during October…some yogurt companies have pink ribbons on their merchandise…everyone is doing it. Well, not me.I hate breast cancer. I REALLY hate it. Breast cancer stole one of the most important people in my life from me…my father’s twin sister…my aunt. Both of my grandmothers had breast cancer. My cousin died of breast cancer. Breast cancer is like a terrible virus that keeps sweeping through my family. And like all viruses, you can’t get rid of them; they...

Well it’s that time of year when all of the rich leftists in Hollywood get out their $40,000 dollar gowns, put on their millions in jewelry, climb into their limos, and head up to the Kodak Theater to pat themselves on the back for being working class heroes. I couldn’t care less about which picture or actor gets a trophy, I just love listening to the political correctness and monumental hubris on display for the world to see. This year I have decided to add my own category. The category is: Which liberal cause will come up most often during...

INDIANA, Pa. -- State police in Indiana County said a woman is facing felony theft charges after stealing a spool of ribbon from Walmart. According to police reports, Catherine Fee, of Homer City, was charged after taking the ribbon from the Walmart in Blairsville in Burrell Township. Police said the ribbon is worth $1.47.

Yesterday a woman posted on FaceBook an idea to show opposition to government takeover by flying the American flag upside down as a symbol of distress. While I liked her enthusiasm, it concerns me that this may be misinterpreted as disrespectful to our flag. My mom had an alternative idea that I thought bares mentioning. Tie a red, white, and blue ribbon around a tree or mailbox … or wherever you can on your property to oppose our present government. We are going to attempt to contact Glenn Beck and other media sources about this effort. We need your help...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17, 2009 – The Yellow Ribbon Program is “off and running,” said the program’s deputy executive director, James “Scotty” Scott. The program’s goal is to prepare servicemembers and their families for mobilization, sustain families during mobilization, and reintegrate soldiers with their families, communities and employers upon redeployment. During the first nine months of fiscal 2009, reserve components have hosted more than 1,367 Yellow Ribbon events across the 54 U.S. states and territories. Through these events, more than 133,000 reservists and their family members have received valuable training and information about support services available to them before, during and...

11/7/2008 - ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. (AFNS) -- Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command has a new office charged with ensuring deploying reservists and their families are well taken care of. The Office of Deployment Cycle Support manages the command's Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program. "The program helps Airmen and their families face the challenges of deployment," said Col. Mary Hill, DCS director. "It provides the family with information about the many programs and services that are available to help them and it addresses issues and concerns that families face when reintegrating back to their home communities." Colonel Hill and Master...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2006 -- A 17-year-old Los Angeles boy likes the sentiment of the old song about tying a yellow ribbon ‘round the old oak tree to remember someone who’s away from home. But Matthew Cook is taking the idea a step -- make that a mile -- further. Seventeen-year-old Matthew Cook (center) stopped at the Pentagon with his parents, David and Sharon Cook, while visiting Washington to collect signatures on a section of yellow ribbon. Cook has arranged to ship the ribbon -- which then will stretch a mile long -- to Iraq this fall as a...

Tattered and faded, two American flags and one yellow ribbon waved for the last time this past Tuesday. They welcomed Zach Madsen, an Alaska National Guard soldier who spent the past year serving in Iraq, home to his mother’s house on the west shore of Lake Carlos. Patty Den Hartog has flown the flags and yellow ribbon – through rain, snow and sunshine – in her front yard during each of her son’s three deployments since 1999. She did the same when her other son, Justin, served in Somalia during the early 1990s. Each time Madsen returned, she took them...

NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) was awarded the Combat Action Ribbon in December for action while in Aquaba, Jordan, in August. The Combat Action Ribbon is awarded to a ship’s crew when the safety of the ship and crew is endangered by enemy attack - such as a ship engaged by shore fire - and the ship’s crew performance is considered satisfactory. Kearsarge’s robust force protection measures thwarted a terrorist attack while pierside in Aquaba with USS Ashland (LSD 48) Aug. 19 in support of Exercise Infinite Moonlight, a two-week training exercise between...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 - Army troops assigned to combat units that come under fire will be eligible for a new badge that recognizes their efforts separately from ribbons for all who serve in Iraq or Afghanistan or who support the Pentagon's antiterrorism missions based in the United States, a senior Army official said Saturday. The new medal, called the Close Combat Badge, was unveiled to a private conference of four-star generals convened in Washington this weekend by Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, the senior official said. Army and Pentagon officials discussed the badge on the condition...

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< snip> After weeks of denigration of the Democratic challenger's Vietnam war record, Mr Kerry's backers have responded with allegations against the President - including the claim that he was once photographed in uniform wearing a medal ribbon he had not earned. As polls showed that Mr Bush had edged ahead of Mr Kerry for the first time, a pro-Kerry organisation labelled the President an "impostor" over the photograph, taken in 1970 and discovered in his father's Presidential Library in Houston, Texas. The ribbon is an Air Force Outstanding Unit Award - which was not awarded to the 111th Fighter...

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My mother inherited a friend's ribbons (from his service in Vietnam) and there is one ribbon that we can't identify, and I thought FReepers would be able to assist. The ribbon is (from left to right: red(narrow), white(narrow), purple(wide), white(narrow), red(narrow), White (narrow), Purple (wide), white (narrow), Red (narrow). N(white)Wide(white)N(white)Wide(white)N I know it is the higher than the National Defense Service Medal, and lower than the Meritorious Unit Commendation. Are there any ideas?

Last night's Candle Light Vigil in Fieldsboro, organized by the citizens, pardon me, make that family of Fieldsboro, was widely covered by the news media. Nutty Buddy, the Mayor of Fieldsboro, has done a great thing, h e's really brought the people of that town together. Mayor Nutty Buddy Tyler was interviewed by EVERY Philadelphia station and two from NYC. At the end of the report by Sharon Crowley of FOX Philadelphia, she noted that the controversy isn't over and that a rally was planned for Saturday. She said that Mayor Nutty Buddy had told her that he would...

KEEP IT TO YOURSELF Deborah Cannonie, Staff WriterMarch 28, 2003 FIELDSBORO -- Diane Johnson found out the hard way that yellow ribbons make Mayor Edward "Buddy" Tyler see red. The borough mayor supports the council?s unanimous vote to outlaw any ribbons or other memorials for the American troops fightingin Iraq, if those ribbons are placed on public property because the government doesn?t want them there. "I?m shocked and outraged," Johnson said. "I can?t believe the mayor would force me to take down ribbons put there in honor of American troops, fighting for our freedom in Iraq." Johnson and her...

How the Yellow Ribbon Became a National Folk Symbol by Gerald E. Parsons This article was originally printed in the Folklife Center News in the summer of 1991 (Volume XIII, #3, pp. 9-11). At that time the Persian Gulf War had inspired Americans to decorate their lapels and their front porches with yellow ribbons for the soldiers sent into combat, once again generating a storm of questions to librarians and folklorists about the origin of the custom. The late Gerald E. Parsons was a folklorist and a librarian in the Folklife Reading Room for twenty-one years. During the last decade,...