reason is pretty simple - patriotic. By the way they still make this ring officially to raise funds for veterans. Yon can read more - Gaspare gave link above.
I do not have airforce version. Somewhere I have army version - plain ring with rosete/flower.

Last edited by hapur; 12/13/2014 08:43 PM.

There are less original rings than you think, much less...

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