The oak leaf cluster is a miniature bronze or silver oak leaf that may be worn by service members of the seven uniformed services of the United States on certain medals and ribbons issued by the United States Army, Air Force, and Department of Defense. The oak leaf cluster denotes subsequent decorations and awards. Each bronze oak leaf cluster is worn to denote an addition award of the same decoration or award, while a silver oak leaf cluster is worn to to represent five bronze oak leaf clusters. The oak leaf cluster must be authorized for wear in order to be worn on certain decorations or awards.
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“I could lecture on dry oak leaves; I could, but who would hear me? If I were to try it on any large audience, I fear it would be no gain to them, and a positive loss to me. I should have behaved rudely toward my rustling friends.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what’s going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
“The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it—this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)