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===Official blazon=== | ===Official blazon=== | ||
Shield: Vert, two keys palewise wards to chief addorsed with bows braced surmounted by a balance beam pendant of two pans Or, | Shield: Vert, two keys palewise wards to chief addorsed with bows braced surmounted by a balance beam pendant of two pans Or, on a chief of the like the domes of Taj Mahal couped Argent, fimbriated of the first, charged with a heraldic rose Gules <br> | ||
on a chief of the like the domes of Taj Mahal couped Argent, fimbriated of the first, charged with a heraldic rose Gules <br> | Crest: That for regiments and separate battalions of the Army Reserve: From a wreath Or and vert, the Lexington Minute Man Proper. The Statue of the Minute Man, Captain John Parker (H.H. Kitson, sculptor) stands on the common in Lexington, Massachusetts<br> | ||
Crest: That for regiments and separate battalions of the Army Reserve: From a wreath Or and vert, the Lexington Minute Man Proper. | Motto: Honorem restituimus (We restore honor). | ||
The Statue of the Minute Man, Captain John Parker (H.H. Kitson, sculptor) stands on the common in Lexington, Massachusetts<br> | |||
Motto: Honorem restituimus (We restore honor) | |||
Distinctive Unit Insignia, Description: A gold color metal and enamel device 1 1/8 inches (2.86 cm) in height overall consisting of two erect gold keys addorsed and conjoined | Distinctive Unit Insignia, Description: A gold color metal and enamel device 1 1/8 inches (2.86 cm) in height overall consisting of two erect gold keys addorsed and conjoined at the bows and surmounted at the center of the shanks by a red heraldic rose all in front of an between a pair of scales, the balance beam black and the scale pans gold and issuing above the balance beam a tapered white dome between the tops of two smaller domes (a representation of the Taj Mahal) all above agreen scroll, the ends curving inward behind the pendant supports the scale pans inscribed "HONOREM RESTITUIMUS" in gold letters. | ||
at the bows and surmounted at the center of the shanks by a red heraldic rose all in front of an between a pair of scales, the balance beam | |||
black and the scale pans gold and issuing above the balance beam a tapered white dome between the tops of two smaller domes (a representation of the Taj Mahal) | |||
all above agreen scroll, the ends curving inward behind the pendant supports the scale pans inscribed "HONOREM RESTITUIMUS" in gold letters. | |||
===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||