If you have anything nice you would like to display to everyone then jump on board and learn about shadowboxes and what they can do for you. It's true that many people have medals, pictures or other styles of awards that they feel would be nice to put up on a wall. A lot of times because they don't know how they simply leave them in a box and noone ever gets to appreciate them.
I have some nice wood shadowboxes but I haven't found exactly what I've been looking for, for quite some time and I would like to see some more instructions available on the net to get good plans.
I have some friends who are in the military and they think that shadow boxes are pretty much the best invention since sliced cheese and I would have to probably agree.