Jim, you might want to check the classifieds in the back of a Navy (or any other) Times to see if there are any shadow box makers advertising there as well, if only for design ideas.

While I have no true idea when my flag flew over my last ship, I like to tell others that it was flying on the day that we recovered over 3,000 pounds of Columbia's other cash crop while on a counter narcotics cruise off of Central America.