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Recently my neighbor tied a large yellow ribbon around the tree in her front yard. It was a beautiful sign of loyalty she has for her daughter who was deployed. Over the years, the yellow ribbon has become a renowned symbol of the devotion we have to our family members serving away from home in the military.
Did you ever wonder where this tradition came from? Yellow is the official color of the cavalry branch of the U.S. Army, used in insignia, etc., and originally exemplified in Hollywood movies by the yellow neckerchiefs supposed to be worn in the 19th Century by cavalry soldiers. In the United States military, the symbol of the yellow ribbon is used in a popular marching song. The first version copyrighted was the 1917 version by George A. Norton, which he titled ‘Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon (For Her Lover Who Is Fur, Fur Away). While he tells in the song about the love between Susie Simpkins and her soldier lover Silas Hubbard, his chorus goes:‘Round her neck she wears a yeller ribbon, She wears it in winter and the summer so they say, If you ask her “Why the decoration?” She’ll say “It’s fur my lover who is fur, fur away.
FT. Campbell, 1979, the Avionics Platoon came up with having the women wear the Yellow Ribbons at first around their wrist, then attached to their cars. November 4, 1979, Iranian revolutionaries seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and held Ambassador Bruce Laingen and the rest of the embassy staff hostage. This inspired a lady to tie the Yellow Ribbon around a tree. People started to follow her lead and continued to tie yellow ribbons around everything they could. This resulted in the manufacturing of yellow ribbon pins and bumper stickers. By 1980, the whole world was aware of yellow-ribbon support.
Thousands of men and woman are putting their lives on the line every day around the world to defend our freedom. Show your support by displaying the yellow ribbon.
Submitted by Nicole Isenberg (HHC member and proud Air Force wife)
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