Fraternal pins give their wearers a chance to show off their interests within, and contributions to, their given fraternal order. Masons, for example, may wear a Turtle pin, which basically means they like to drink, while those wearing pins shaped like a drop of blood telegraph to their fellow members that they are blood donors.
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