in 2009 I constructed a series of medal sculptures accompanied by a book, borrowing the format from American War Medals and Decorations (Evans E. Kerrigan, 1964), and thinking of David Smith's Medals for Dishonor (1939-40). The medals in my book recognize internal strife: "friendly fire," "fragging" (officers killed or wounded by those of lesser rank), the embalming business. (a precursor to the sentence generator I made in 2019)