The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 20, May 16, 2004, Article 17

MACKINAW MEDAL EXHIBIT

An article posted on a central Illinois web site describes an
exhibit of medals opening May 20 in MAckinaw, IL:

"In a Peoria pawn shop one day, Cathy Grubar was
saddened to see military medals for sale.

She just didn't think that was right, so bought them.

"It bothers me to see them there," she said.

Over the years she has collected about 60 medals in all,
researched their stories and mounted them in display cases.

Now she has seven or eight display cases which she is going
to share with the public in a display at Mackinaw District
Public Library opening May 20.

The medals are from World Wars I and II and the Korean
and Vietnam wars. She also has a Victoria Cross, the highest
military honor for valor in Great Britain, in addition to medals
from China and Germany.

Special in her collection are her grandfather's World War II
medals, her father's Korean War medals and a Purple Heart
that belongs to her father-in-law.

As veterans age, sometimes the younger generation doesn't
care about the medals and just throws them away or sells them
at garage sales, she said. So, she visits such sales and buys
them.

Grubar, 45, has enlisted the help of her daughter, Julie, in
rescuing and preserving medals.

"She taught me eBay," said Grubar who was surprised to see
that some Nazi German medals -- those with swastikas -- are
banned for sale on eBay.

She doesn't agree with that. "We can't change history, but we
can learn from it," she said."

Medals Collection

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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