11.   Combat photos from Vietnam cover the corner walls, alongside framed certificates in lethal skills like jungle warfare.

12.   Dozens of framed certificates earned from emergency-response courses crowd the walls of his small home office off the kitchen of his Fort Johnson house.

13.   He brought out the framed certificate the army sent after his son perished, clutching it to his bony chest.

14.   He received a gold medallion and a framed certificate.

15.   In it was a framed certificate.

16.   Nearby is a framed NFL membership certificate, which is essentially the deed to the team.

17.   One of the men inquired about a framed certificate from the University of Texas on the wall behind the counter.

18.   Spallek says the framed certificate decorates his office wall.

19.   Those were simpler days, when even those of us without framed certificates on the wall were expected to tinker with our cars, radios and other devices.

20.   Years ago, he recalls, colleagues gave him a framed certificate for two shares of Navistar stock.