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Genesis Legacy Medal

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Fox News personality and veterans advocate Johnny Joey Jones, a former U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant, was the Purple Heart recipient of the 2021 Genesis Legacy Medal.

Named for the four visionaries who conceived of and helped build the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, the Genesis Legacy Medal is awarded to a prominent Purple Heart recipient and a non-Purple Heart veteran or civilian who have exhibited exemplary service to our nation or our veterans community.

Tunnel to Towers Chairman Frank Siller was awarded the 2021 Genesis Legacy Medal.

Past recipients of the Genesis Legacy Medal have included:

  • U.S. Senator Bob Dole

  • New York Governor George Pataki

  • U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth

  • USMC Staff Sergeant Johnny Joey Jones

  • Tunnel to Towers Chairman Frank Siller

  • Fmr. Congressman Chris Gibson (U.S. Army, Ret.)

  • General David Perkins (U.S. Army, Ret.)

  • General Joseph Votel (U.S. Army, Ret.)

  • USMC Corporal Megan Leavey

 

Past Genesis Legacy Medal Honorees:

Four-star General Joseph Votel, the former commander of United States Central Command, accepts the 2026 Genesis Legacy medal from Honor Mission Board Chairman Jeremy McVey (center) and Executive Director Col. Russ Vernon (right).

National Purple Heart Honor Mission Board Chairman Jeremy McVey presents the 2026 Genesis Legacy Medal to former Congressman and Purple Heart recipient Col. Chris Gibson (U.S. Army, Ret.).

National Purple Heart Honor Mission Executive Director Col. Russ Vernon (U.S. Army, Ret.) presents the 2019 Genesis Legacy Medal to General David G. Perkins (U.S. Army, Ret.).

National Purple Heart Honor Mission Board Secretary Edie Meeks (USANC) presents the 2019 Genesis Legacy Medal to Purple Heart Honoree Megan Leavey (USMC).

Former New York Governor George E. Pataki was awarded the 2017 Genesis Legacy Medal.

Patric Morrison of Cornwall wrote a “Letter to the Editor” of the Orange County Post/The Sentinel, Everett Smith, that sparked the Genesis Group into action and started the process that created and then expanded the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor.

Past Genesis Legacy Medal recipients

Past Genesis Legacy Medal recipients gathered at the 2019 Genesis Legacy Medal Dinner.