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The Honorable Service Lapel Button, colloquially called “Ruptured Duck” by the members of the military, was a lapel button awarded for honorable Federal military service between 1925 and 1946.

The U.S. departments of War and the Navy issued the lapel button to eligible servicemen and women upon discharge. It was made of gilt brass, except during metal shortages during which it was made of gilt plastic. Service members who received the plastic version were later allowed to trade it in for the brass version.

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