Abdullah Igram was stationed in New Guinea while he was in the military during the second world war. When asked what to engrave in his personnel dog tag for religious affiliation (P for Protestant, J for Jewish, or C for Catholic) he insisted for an M for Muslim. Since the makers didn’t have the technology to create a custom engraving for that part, they just left it blank.

After he safely went back to Iowa after the war, he sent a letter to President Eisenhower persuading him to add the M option on military dog tags. And soon enough he received a reply from the President’s secretary thanking him for the suggestion which was actually implemented. You can find out more about him and his works through this article.

But that was during the second world war. Now you can buy custom engraved dog tags. You can even put pictures and images in it. Even if you’re not in the military. To order your custom engraved dog tags please check our Military Dog Tags section. If you’re not into military related stuff you can also check our Main Dog Tags section which includes dog tag design from other categories.

We found from this blog post from Metalxmfg about custom dog tags for martial arts events. Just like military people, these fighters need cool customized dog tags with their names engraved on it too.

This is good to provide identity to your whole team when competing in martial arts events or tournaments. It’s not a good idea to where them while actually fighting of performing your katas or patterns.

To order dog tags for the whole team go the the Team Dog Tags section and customize to your own liking. You can even upload your own custom logo. Plus, if you order dog tags in bulk, you get special discounts.

These illustrations is what I am talking about.

These cartoons are for the dog tag people. All military Dog Tags are engraved and packaged as gifts.

Military  dog tags are engraved and packaged as nice gifts.

If adults get affected when their loved ones go to war, how much more the children? This is one situation that almost all military men and women are avoiding as this can affect the lives of their kids both mentally and emotionally. Although military dog tags left at home can make these children remember their army dad or mom, it takes more that just a necklace to appease their loneliness and yearning for a parent’s warm hugs and sweet kisses. Thinking about this can make even a cold hearted person feel sorry that’s why we enlisted here 5 tips that will help kids cope up with being away from their mom or dad who is in battle

1. Communication is always the key when you’ away from home, therefore it’s essential that kids are given the chance to call, email or even snail mail their parents, especially on special occasions or holidays such as Birthdays and Christmas.

2. Military parents must exert efforts in having their presence felt even if they are thousand of miles away. Make voice or video recordings prior to leaving so when the time comes that their kid misses them, they can just turn on the recording to feel a connection from their mom or dad. Pictures, letters and dog tags are good memorabilia too.

Military Dog Tags as a memorabilia in support for childrens who's parents is in the army.

3. A Military parent must avoid making false hope and promises to their kids. They can assure them that they’ll be fine while away but never say stuffs that are impossible to happen like being present on school activities when they can’t as it will dishearten a child even more.

4. If a child is already in school, inform his/her teachers about the family condition so they can give them extra attention and understanding for it is inevitable for kids of military parents to be unfocused or reserved due to their current situation and feelings of fears and loneliness.

5. Have the kids interact with other military families so they will not feel alone with their longings and will have people whom they can comfortably share their feelings and stories.

Last Thursday, October 15, 2009, people got worried and curious when news came out that a six-year-old boy, not from Norwalk,Connecticut, got lost and was believed to be trapped in a helium balloon that soared about 60 miles eastern Colorado . This is truly no ordinary news as it involved the life of a child who probably doesn’t have any identification, such as a dog tag, thus it will be hard to locate him if ever he fell out of the floating balloon and needed to be located and returned safe back at their home.

What’s more interesting about this incident is that the family involved in it, the Heene family, is as well extra ordinary as they are storm chasers and science fanatic peeps that once appeared in the 100th episode of ABC’s “Wife Swap” This character of the family, especially that of the parents, made people a bit apprehensive regarding the truth of the incident. Doubts were more fueled when after numerous hours of ground and air searches, the 10 year old boy, Falcon Heene, was discovered to be hiding in a box in the attic of their house in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Speculations started to form that the non-wearing dog tag boy’s parents, Richard and Mayumi Heene, might have intentionally facilitated the said event in order to promote their upcoming reality show.  The police remained mum in the days that followed as they did further investigations about the said accusations.

Three days after the unusual news; police released a statement that the Heene’s Balloon story is proven to be a prank. Sheriff Jim Alderden, shared to reporters last Sunday that, “It has been determined this was a hoax. It was a publicity stunt.”  He also added that while the investigation is still ongoing, there will be no arrest to be made at the moment. Heene’s lawyer, David Lane, said that he wants to shun from “the public spectacle and humiliation” of police men arresting the parents in front of their kids and assured that both Richard and Mayumi Heene will turn themselves to authorities if it’s already the right time.

Once, I was allowed to serve my country in the comfort of my own home. I stood at attention, saluted the flag, and serviced the servicemen of this great nation and send military dog tags to every man. Or shall I say serviceman. Mine was a patriotic act deeply personal, that of which many women have undertaken and find great pleasure in. I loved a military man. And just any military man, a United States Marine.

Marines are a different breed of men. They reason with complete removal of emotion 
yet speak with sentiment about the destruction of world’s they’ve encountered. Contemplative but careless, wildly egocentric, brash, belligerent; they are a mesh of contradictions. They are tender but tough, forceful but reserved, charismatically gruff. Sometimes they hate what they do, but they always believe in it. They’ve orphaned so much life has to offer: family, safety, permanence- but they do not care. They live like they speak: brusquely, candidly, without apology and with a certainty that this is the life for them.

Together Marines can be a thing to behold: drinking and swearing, singing and slapping each other on the back, saying things like, “remember that time at Okinawa.” But in the eyes of any military man you see how they live, their rash life that can be picked up and packed away at a moment’s notice, their disconnection with people and place, their sheer will that often supersedes bravery. Knowing them you are conscious of a whole new way of life, one that involves the elaborate mechanics of killing, strategic violence, and strict uniformity. Military men bring what it means to be an American, the beauty and the burden, and set it before you.

You see for the first time the corporeality of war; it’s actual materiality. The war lay next to me at night, it breathed and dreamed, pulled me close and touched my body. It was not just a flash of news on CNN or an article on the front page. It was real, and it belonged to us all. It was a life and a death. A friend and a family member, someone dearly loved. It was the man by my side, and so many others, with a long life ahead, marching off to a place he might not come back from. I never felt his fear, only a casual calmness that whatever happened he would be okay. With that, he taught me when facing the unknown you must meet it boldly and that in chaos poise was certainly possible.

Military dog tag symbolizes army men with their strong and hard personality but shining with passion and love for their profession.

Military men live life hard-nosed and with intensity, but they value the simple: a warm meal, the correspondence of a friend, a photo of the family. They are passionate, sturdy men. Besides bestowing a fierce patriotism, there is something strangely empowering in loving a man who serves our country who wears camouflage and combat boots to work. Meticulous, built, and brave, a military man is everything you would expect him to be, and sometimes even a little sweet and endearing.

So women, if you haven’t already had you’re run with a military man I hope that someday you do; it is a unique experience. Be it the Marines, Army, Navy, or Air force, the armed forces of this nation have a lot to teach us. And strangely enough it is not always because of the job they do but because of the way they live. My Marine taught me to be brave, not because he was a Marine but because he lived what he believed, and that is a hard thing to do, perhaps the hardest.

The members of the United States military are proud men and they make you proud to be with them, contributing to a life that is sewn together with orders, ranks, and letters written among sand and sea. You can’t help but to believe in them. They leave you with dog tags and broken hearts but you don’t care. You wake up smiling, thinking about the countries they’ve been in, wondering where they will go next, and who will be there to listen to their stories and nibble on their ear in the dark and get all teary eyed thinking of the things they’ve done and the things they’ll do- for me and for you and for everyone who lives in a county that fights to stay free.

For SSgt. Steven A. Lefevre

Nina is a freelance writer who specializes in writing for and about women. She has published articles in women’s magazines and looks forward to a career someday as a dating columnist and a novelist. She enjoys writing about music, trends is pop-culture, women’s issues, baseball, and fictional stories. She is passionate about the Red Sox, the Marine Corps, her family; loves wine, cats, and the beauty of the written word.
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