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Originally Posted by dekeguy
My Dad tells me that Pinning was a very serious undertaking in his day. It was viewed as effectively being engaged and normally signaled that marriage was to be either shortly after graduation or upon return from military duty.
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Yep. My dad gave his badge to my mother, though I guess it technically wasn't a "pinning" because they were already married (or engaged). He had left college to go to war in WWII. They got married when he came back and when she finished college, and he went back to school on the GI bill. I'm not sure whether he pledged Kappa Sigma before or after they were married, but I think it was after. If not, they were already engaged. I need to check those dates.
In any event, I remember asking him when I was in college if I could see his badge. He said, "You'll have to ask your mother; I gave it to her." And when I asked her, she went straight to it.
Meanwhile, I've shared elsewhere
the story of the badge my great-grandfather gave my great-grandmother.
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