re: #157 Feline Fearless Leader

And last a few oddities. Lapel pins and a penny with a readily identified design impressed into it.

Image: Lightning_bolt_lapel_pin.jpg

Image: Gold_and_blue_pin.jpg

Image: masonic_penny_-_1.jpg

All my grandfather’s I believe. The blue and gold pin is probably Masonic. Not sure what the lightning bolt lapel pin was symbolic of.

Ah ha!
Lightning Bolt pin is the 78th Infantry Division insignia.
en.wikipedia.org

My grandfather was a Sgt in the 309th Infantry in that division in World War I.