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Originally posted by sweetie adpi (in part)
so anyways my real point of this whole thing is that it got me wondering:
b) does anyone own any old badges? how did you aquire them? any cool stories?
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I have a
PKA that I inherited from my grandmother -- her father gave it to her mother in 1886 (according to the inscription on the back). (Each of the grandkids got a special piece of jewelry when she died, and this is what came to me.)
We have the badge mounted and framed in a shadow box. It looks much like a present-day PIKE badge, except for the colors. The shield in the background is white with gold letters (
ffka). The diamond is blue(!) with very small blue stones (turquoise or something similar) around the edges.
In the way of cool stories, I came across a PIKE history book in a used bookstore a few months back. Interested, I looked through it, only to find two pictures of my great-grandparents before they were married -- he a chapter member and she a chapter sister or sweetheart. I think it's particularly cool since my grandmother's maiden name is my son's given name -- PIKE or not, he'll get the badge and the book one day.
Though I'm not a PIKE, I cherish the badge as something that was special to my great-grandparents and to my grandmother (her mother, the recipient of the badge, died when my grandmother was only a few years old). I treat the badge with respect it deserves.
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