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Critics asked the president to appoint a blue-ribbon commission to investigate police practices.
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Critics asked the president to appoint a blue-ribbon commission to investigate police practices.
The original medal had a blue ribbon 5/8 (16 mm) wide with 2 white stripes.
The very earliest ones, c 1910, were just a plain darkish blue ribbon.
A blue ribbon would be pinned across the chest.
The former engineers have as a circular, a large blue ribbon with a black edging in the medium.
The medal is suspended from an ultramarine blue ribbon 35 mm in width with three thin white stripes in the center of the ribbon.
Once, an owner tipped him $500 for pinning a blue ribbon on his horse, which would have received it, tip or not.
Some of these same revised blue ribbon reissues can still be seen on television today.
I welcome an innovative part of the plan, the blue ribbon network.
