What are some of the more unique, not the "normal" Retirement gifts you have seen?

I gave my brother something that was unique for a retirement ceremony. It was part tradition, and part really personal.

So, a lot of people know about the silver dollar tradition for a first salute. I happened to be commissioned the night I walked off a plane after a year in Iraq. It was 0300, I had just got off the plane, and I didn't have a silver dollar. As part of the "welcome home" ceremony we had before they released us to go with our families, they kept my battalion and pinned a nice new 2LT bar on me and my brother, who was in the Air Force, was my first salute.

Fast forward a few years, when my brother was retiring, he asked if I would officiate his retirement ceremony. Of course, I agreed. As a Captain at the time, I knew I had never gotten him that silver dollar. So, I went out, got him a really nice, really old silver dollar and surprised him with it at his retirement ceremony. I doubt too many people got a dollar that they were owed from years before that was actually worth several hundred dollars when they retired.

Awesome - My retirement gift was a set of golf clubs. I can't wait to see other retirement gifts from others on RP.

I got this at my retirement....it is numbered (don't remember the number, but pretty low). I REALLY like it...ties in my Army Medic years, AF Years, and I feel represents my deployments to Desert Shield/Storm, Iraq, and Afghanistan!