Sentence examples for old medal from inspiring English sources

But the triumph was not straightforward: as Hass relates, the extreme simplicity of the memorial made people leave mementos of the actual men — an old medal, a playing card, a bottle of Jack Daniel's — along the wall near the name of the fallen soldier.

But the triumph was not straightforward: as Hass relates, the extreme simplicity of the memorial made people leave mementos of the actual men an old medal, a playing card, a bottle of Jack Daniel's along the wall near the name of the fallen soldier.

Ms. Grindstaff likes old medals.

A beggar slumped beneath a telephone on a Moscow street picks through his old medals: "Chechnya... Afghanistan...".

But Mr. Kerry and his adversaries were not just arguing over the old wounds, old medals and old words of an old war.

The judge told my mother that he liked old medals so my mother bribed him with a collection of my grandfather's tsarist medals.

Gilbert and George insisted yesterday they were not anti-establishment, as they unveiled their latest exhibition crammed with images of the union flag and old medals.

Before the bans, collectors had been able to find items that might have been gathering dust in the attic of a noncollector, someone who had simply found a box of old medals and decided to put them up for bids.

Polishing up the old medals will not avail.

While Britain allows transgender personnel to return old medals to get ones with new names, in Canada, medals will not reissued.

A 90-year-old Medal of Honor winner is involved in a dispute with a neighborhood association that wants him to remove a flag pole from his front yard.