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for those of you who don't know what this is, it's a purple heart. the kind George Washington invented and bestowed back in the day when men were men and presidents wore pigtails.

according to the history, we only have a record of three of these badges of valor being handed out during the revolutionary war, after which the "book of merit" went missing. maybe Washington handed out others. maybe he didn't. only two have survived down to us.

i've decided that george was a swell egg and definitely handed out others; particularly one to the bastard son of a british lord by the name of david huntington, because i need james to inherit one after the death of his grandmother (which later gets passed along to lewis if i remember correctly).

for a while i scrupled over playing loose with the rules on this one, but if we're just operating on "no knowledge of others" as opposed to "no others were given", then i think it's totally fair game.

history is sometimes convenient that way.

: D