A Cigar Box of Tea Bags

In ,
Marc Reeve radiated into the WorldWideWait:
Duke of URL macbenahATkdsiDOTnet wrote:
In ,
Bob McKellar radiated into the WorldWideWait:

For no particularly justifiable reason, I am posting this
whole story to the group.

Very good. Reminds me of men I've known.
One question: What are "yellow pins"?
piped up again. "There's a box with two yellow pins in it.
They look brand new, but they're pretty plain. Want me to

I suspect, having read the entire story, that they're his unused
Lieutenant's bars. (As he was in hospital when he got his
commission, and was then demobilized and sent home without ever
appearing in uniform again.)

That's what I was kinda guessing, but since it's about the army in
WW2, I thought I'd better check - they used to have all sorts of weird
uniform things. Since then, Bob has confirmed it.