08-10-2011, 11:43 PM
I'm guessing the 5 for the upper lip is to delineate the little "dip" (maybe there's a word for it... LOL) in the top-center of the lip (that the lower lip doesn't have).
A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America," for an amount of "up to and including my life".