Oil on illustration board. Portrait of five star General George C. Marshall. Army Service Ribbons for Decorations and Medals include: Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Unknown Ribbon (purple, possibly the purple heart), WWI Victory, Philippine Congressional, American Defense Service, Légion d'honneur, Unknown Ribbon (alternating bands of red and black), Unknown Ribbon (mostly white with a large band of red at the end and a small band of blue in the middle), Commendation Ribbon, Army Wound Ribbon, Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, Unknown Ribbon (equally sized bands of white, blue, and red), Unknown Ribbon (solid black with a small red band in center), Unknown Ribbon (orange with two bands of gold stripes, Unknown Ribbon (solid white), Unknown Ribbon (solid green with red band in center). Marshall wears a five star General's pin and possibly a War Department General Staff Identification pin on his shoulder loops. He also wears two officer pins and two Gerneral Staff Corps pins on his lapel. Marshall wears a black tie.
Once General Robert E. Lee's Army had been cut off from its supplies, the Confederate Army was limping along. By the spring of 1865, Lee had no choice but to surrender his Army of Northern Virginia. This copy of Grant's letter outlining the terms of surrender was made by W. H. Atkinson, a clerk in the Adjutant General's office of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The two commanders met at the McLean home in Appomattox Court House, Virginia. There Grant and Lee formalized and signed the surrender.
This navy blue cotton baseball cap has an emblem embroidered in gray and yellow thread and "USS Enterprise, CVN 65" embroidered in yellow thread at front. The bill is embroidered with the leaf-shaped emblem known as “scrambled eggs.” This hat was among the objects retrieved from the wreckage of the Pentagon following the September 11 attack.
Description: This fused clump of presentation coins and a fire-scarred medallion were recovered from the damaged offices of the Pentagon.
Context: The U.S. military has a long tradition of presenting commissioned coins and medallions to visiting dignitaries, to those who have provided special support, and to recognize exemplary service.
When terrorists hijacked an airplane and crashed it into the Pentagon, the jet fuel ignited a huge fire. The heat from the blaze was so intense that it even melted these metal coins.