The Purple Heart is awarded to military members who are injured and killed in combat, through an act of terrorism or by friendly fire. It acknowledges the physical sacrifice of service to the nation.

As a particularly dark form of housekeeping to ready themselves for that possibility, the military produced a mind-boggling 1.5 million Purple Heart medals. Given that Purple Hearts are only ...

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Pete Celentano of Jackson and Michael Vaccaro of Middletown braved danger and earned medals in Vietnam, but lost paperwork ...

The Purple Heart, the military’s oldest award, is given to those wounded or posthumously to those killed. Ford presented the ...

A Fort Carson soldier has been recognized for his heroic actions during an attack in Afghanistan in 2012. Captain James ...