Invitations to Parties

Red Cross women were expected to attend

My Mother and Audie Murphy Ch. 79

After her death, in Flo’s jewelry box I found a bracelet made from a Combat Infantryman Badge. The badge is a U.S. Army decoration awarded to infantrymen and Special Forces soldiers, colonel rank and below, who fought in active ground combat after December, 1941. The same badge appears here on the dance invitation. I imagine it had been awarded to Flo’s fiancé, Gene Gustafson, and that she had it fashioned into a bracelet she could wear.

Ch. 80: https://mollymartin.blog/2025/12/16/goodbye-to-the-high-pointers/