Glen, Is your button the one described by Skip, with Cadet at top, A.M.I., at bottom, and the motto of Our God, Our Country, Our Honor ? If so, you have a wonderful find, and it would be only the second recovered in Arkansas, [ One was found at Perryville, KY., also ] and only the third dug example nation wide. Would also be ......... I wanted to say "proof" but as a good researcher would say, "would tend to suggest that these buttons are in fact the pattern worn by Cadets at A.M.I." Steve