Purple Heart Day
From Stars & Stripes;
The Purple Heart is the oldest military decoration granted in the United States. It was established by Gen. George Washington on Aug. 7, 1782, at Newburgh, New York, during the Revolutionary War.
• Forbidden by the Continental Congress from granting commissions and promotions in rank to recognize merit, Washington created what was then called the Badge of Military Merit.
• The practice of awarding the badge fell dormant after the war until it was revived on May 28, 1932, and awarded to U.S. Army and Air Corps veterans of World War I. By this time, it was known as the Purple Heart.
• In 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt extended the award to members of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. It was also approved to be granted posthumously.
• The website for the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor is thepurpleheart.com.
• The website for the Military Order of the Purple Heart is purpleheart.org.
I’m proud and humbled that some members of this blog community are also Purple Heart recipients.
Category: We Remember
Jonn, thank you for this article. This only reminds me of my pos brother that has claimed this award with all of his lies! I think I have him removed from most of all the Purple Heart sites, but I will also check both of these to make sure he is not on either one of these sites. Keep up the great work, someday, I hope all of these posers will be exposed for the lying assholes that they are! Thank you sir!
I am thankful that I was not awarded one.
Great big thanks to those that were.
One of only two military medals no solider wants.
Then again that sweet sweet no fee license plate registration…..
That doesn’t apply to all states.
Here in Idaho if you want a PH plate, it’ll cost you an extra $25.00 on top of the regular costs.
And the $25.00 is just for the initial issue.
Annual renewals thereafter have a $15.00 charge in addition to the normal fees.
The PH plate is considered a “Vanity Plate.”
Nothing is too good for the troops and they get lots of that.
Never received the PH myself. My little cat scratch wounds were taken care of by self administered first aid.
My hat’s off to all who earned one.
I’m grateful that big Army didn’t send me where I could have earned one.
In most cases it is not earned. One just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong moment in time. But admittedly some have deliberately put themselves in those wrong places. I watched an Army Artillery LTC step out of a bunker during a mortar attack on a fire support base so he could examine the enemy mortar round impact craters so he could direct counter-battery fire. In the process, another round impacted and he was hit in the back with a small piece on shrapnel.
That’s always been my rather cynical view, also; bad luck, stupidity, or ignorance. Most of the time it’s bad luck, but I have seen the other reasons, too.
Then there is the John Kerry version.
If I may add….The Military Order of the Purple Heart is a fine Veterans organization – I’ve been a life member since 2007.
Roger that.
Thinking of my late uncle, a Korean War vet. Only man I’ve ever known to have received the Purple Heart for a bayonet wound. You gotta be rather close to the enemy for that. I became a paratrooper to follow in his footsteps in some small way.
UMM John Kerry got 4 in 3 months-umm what a total bs fraud pos.
The only thing he’d get from me is a Purple Ass!
XBradTC made this observation yesterday, on the anniversary of Hiroshima: