But all will have appreciated the words of the citation: "for services to international understanding".
8 RAR was awarded the South Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Palm Unit Citation for its service during the Vietnam War.
Caulfield received a Citation for Distinguished Service from Secretary of the Interior Stuart Udall in 1968 during the administration of President John F. Kennedy which said in part: He also received the Iban Award in 1975 from the American Water Resources Association (AWRA), a national organization of over 2800 members, for promotion of multidisciplinary approaches to water resource problems.
The citation is for "services to North Ronaldsay", but as I flick through, it becomes clear that none of the correspondents seems able to decide exactly which services they should be congratulating him for.
My citation was "For Services to the Fashion Industry" - or, as I'm guessing, for being a loudmouthed agitator and behind-the-scenes introducer-in-general for London's young designers, a woman who, in other words, ought to know by now how to dress herself for any occasion.
The company has been awarded three independent citations for customer service, and it should be noted that Micron's hosting divisions service some 70,000 small business sites and 10 million page views a day.
In their old clubhouse there were two dozen citations for public service on the bulletin board.
This year, there were two Pulitzer citations for public service, one for the Post and one for the Guardian; each paper was praised in a slightly different way.
The 3rd Ranger Infantry Company was awarded three campaign streamers and two unit citations for its service in the Korean War.
