House Bill proposed to protect Purple Heart
The Purple Heart Preservation Act, or H.R. 544 would make it illegal to sell the Purple Heart medal and or the Certificate of Award for a Purple Heart. The Bill is named after Private Corrado Piccoli who was wounded during World War II. An article HERE has some information about it.
The bill would prevent merchants from selling military-issued Purple Hearts, eliminating the market for such medals and making it easier for stolen or misplaced medals to be returned to their rightful owners. It would not prevent the sale of replacement medals through authorized sellers.
One would think that is pretty straight forward. If you were never authorized to wear a Purple Heart, you should probably not own one. But, as with all matters of common sense these days:
“Many opponents of the bill have questioned its restrictions of civil liberties in regards to the right of a veteran or family to sell their medal if they do so choose. The bill still allows these parties to gift their medals, and it allows medal enthusiast to still own them,” according to the organization. “The bill simply prevents selling them, which protects the integrity of the medal itself and the legacy and or sacrifice of that veteran. We as a country owe them that respect.”
I doubt selling a Purple Heart is considered a Civil Liberty by most Americans. There are several organizations that work diligently to protect and preserve the Purple Heart medal and those who earned it. Purple Hearts Reunited spends a lot of energy and time doing exactly that.
Mission: To return lost or stolen military medals of valor to veterans or their families, in order to honor their sacrifice to the nation.
I have an idea for those who earned a Purple Heart and need a few bucks. Turn it back in to supply, something about being wounded and then selling the medal is repugnant. When you turn it back into supply bring the voucher here to TAH and some of us will scrape up enough money to get you a bus ticket and launch you on a journey to find your self respect.
Category: Historical, Veterans Issues
I have one more idea! How about a sentence of 20 to life for cocksuckers like my brother who falsely claim to have earned one and posses same? I think that would be a nice little addition to the bill?
How about we run your atrocious brother through a gantlet of wounded warriors who get to pound on him until he cries and begs for mercy? I’m sure we can scare up at least 100 men and women for something like that.
Only if I get to be at the head of the line with a baseball bat?, Thanks Ex!
Not only that, but you get to go back and cut in line as many times as you want to.
How about a cricket bat?
I’ll donate a few blackjacks, billy clubs and sets of brass knuckles for any participant who forgot to bring their own and I might throw in a few icepicks for shits & giggles!
I say let’s slide him down a ramp of razor blades into a nice vat of iodine!
A vat of salt and alcohol.
This legislation will stop theft and sale of medals, and stolen valor, just about as well as universal background checks stop gun thefts and murder.
Or like how The War on Illegal Drugs halted the trade in the U.S.?
The government knows best what you can and cannot do with your Purple Heart. I would love to see a prosecutor charge a Purple Heart recipient with the sale of his medal. This is bullshit. I understand what’s behind it. I’m just not buying it, so to speak.
Tell you what. When someone is wounded, just send them or their survivor a letter saying that a medal is on account but will not be issued for fear that the recipient might sell it. As a matter of fact, let’s do that for all medals.
My personal opinion for what it’s worth.
I believe that all valor awards (Purple Heart, DSC’s, Silver Stars, “V” devices, etc.) should not be allowed to be sold through vendors such as Medals Of America, Awards Medals, Ebay (Ebay does have a policy to not allow the selling of Purple Heart medals/ribbons on their site, all though I have seen this award being sold there even this morning) or the many other military vendors.
I truly believe by doing this, this would severely limited the avenues the posers have to get their hands on valor awards.
If a veteran (or family of) need to replace a lost valor award (or almost any award for that matter), he/she/they can apply through NPRC for a replacement at no charge. Of course this method requires time, documentation and patience.
Depending on which branch the veteran served in, you would either have to contact NPRC or the military branch they served in.
I think this would absolutely make a huge dent in the supply chain for posers. As far as the vendors go, fuck-em!
https://www.archives.gov/veterans/replace-medals.html
How about a “John Kerry” amendment also criminalizing throwing them away?
Yeah, that’s cool. You want to take a 10-pound sledge to it, that’s cool, too. You want to display it in a jar of piss? No problem. You want to sell it to a militaria collector? Your subpoena is in the mail.
You mean citation don’t you?
The proposed law would not affect this:
https://www.amazon.com/Purple-Heart-Medal-Full-Size/dp/B00CC05YGQ
2/17 Air Cav, this also pisses me off!!
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_17?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=silver+star+medal+military&sprefix=silver+star+medal%2Csporting%2C1109&crid=2A19RI6GIA33Q&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Asilver+star+medal+military
Fuqcowee!!
Meant this link.
https://www.amazon.com/Silver-Star-Medal-issued-Military/dp/B004TXB4O0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486480725&sr=8-1&keywords=silver+star+medal+military
You just missed it.
Here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MU52YPB?th=1
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To tell if the individual was issued the medal, check the back of the medal, it should have their name engraved in it.
Sadly, blank medals available all over, mall jewelers or trophy shops will engrave anything no questions asked, for all I know you can order an engraved medal over the internet.
I do know a certain ABQ vet jeweler who would probably make hay with any jerk-wad who brought a blank in for engraving.