FAIRBANKS, Alaska (KTVF) - Purple Heart recipients from across the country were taken on an all-expenses paid trip to the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor. The inaugural Purple Heart Patriot Project Mission #1 was put on by the National Purple Heart Honor Mission, to bring recipients to see historic sites connected with the Purple Heart and feel the appreciation of the country for their service.
Read MoreAt his Meridian home on July 29, Donald Turano holds up the Purple Heart he received after being injured in the Vietnam War.
When Donald Turano returned from the Vietnam War in 1968, he was told to change out of his uniform and into civilian clothes before leaving the airport. The first lieutenant had been in Vietnam less than four months when a rocket shot into the engine of the tank he was riding in, sending him flying out of the hatch. The fall left him with a concussion, and later nurses found bone fragments in his back from the arm of the soldier sitting next to him.
Read MorePurple Heart recipients from around the country were honored recently in Newburgh, New York as part of the Purple Heart Patriot Project Mission #1, an effort of the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor to pay special tribute to the nation’s combat wounded.
Read MoreNEENAH – U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant LeRoy "Lee" Schuff had spent only 10 days in the port city of Incheon, South Korea when, early in the morning of Sept. 24, 1950, he sustained machine gun wounds to both legs caused by a sniper.
Schuff, an Oshkosh native, had enlisted in the Marines that February and shipped out with his battalion to the Korean border. The incident that morning earned him a Purple Heart just a few months into his service.
Read MoreSpecialist (SPC) Heather Armstrong is back at homAe in Central Point after days of historical sightseeing in New York. She was one of 33 Purple Heart recipients from across the country honored at the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor and gifted this experience. Armstrong was the only woman and the only Oregonian in the group.
Read MoreNEWBURGH – Illuminated, fulfilled, and most of all, validated.
Those were the words Army Veteran Sergeant Jon Wambi Cook of California used to describe his Purple Heart Experience last Wednesday.
Read MoreFormer Army Staff Sgt. Brian Willette, wounded in Afghanistan in 2010, represented Massachusetts earlier this month at the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, part of a three-day all-expense-paid trip known as the Purple Heart Patriot Project.
Read MoreWhen Bud Allen was sorting through a pile of mail on his kitchen table, he opened a letter from a stranger.
It was from a high school girl in Chappaqua, New York; she wanted to say thanks.
Read MoreThirty-three Purple Heart recipients of America’s combat wounded veterans came to the New York Area this week from all across the United States for ceremonies being held to honor their valor. They went to West Point, the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor in New Windsor and Newburgh’s Armory on National Purple Heart Day, August 7.
Read MoreNEWBURGH — More than two dozen Purple Heart recipients from all over the United States wrapped up a two-day celebration in their honor with a “Welcome Home” rally at the Newburgh Armory on Wednesday evening.
They were being welcomed not to their home but the home of the medal they received for being wounded in combat.
Read MorePfc. Michael J. Mescavage, the Pennsylvania Commander, Ret., of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, of Hamburg, is among those being honored as part of a national tribute to recipients on National Purple Heart Day.
The Purple Heart is presented to those injured or killed in combat. Aug. 6 was West Point Day for the tribute.
Read MoreThe National Purple Heart Hall of Honor Inc. is providing an all-expenses-paid trip, sponsored by American Airlines, bringing together Purple Heart recipients from each state to salute their courage and sacrifice through a series of tours and ceremonies at the U.S. Military Academy West Point, historic Washington’s Headquarters, and a “Welcome Home” celebration.
The multi-day tribute on Aug. 7 will be capped off with a special visit to the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor – the museum dedicated to paying tribute to our nation’s combat wounded – on National Purple Heart Day.
Read MoreA Jasper County war veteran and Purple Heart recipient will be honored during the inaugural Purple Heart Patriot Project Mission #1, which consists of multiple events to honor Purple Heart recipients. Robert Suesakal isn’t originally from Iowa but he would tell you Iowa is his home through and through. Suesakal is originally from Oakland, Calif., but due to life’s circumstances, he found his way into the U.S. Army in December of 1982 as an infantrymen with the 82nd Airborne.
Read MoreSOUTH HADLEY — When Brian Willette’s armored vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device in the heart of Afghanistan’s Laghman Province on Sept. 13, 2010, he didn’t know if he would make it out alive.
Read MoreOn August 7, 1782, General George Washington - then the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army - established the Purple Heart award, originally designated as the Badge of Military Merit.
The Purple Heart exists in its current form since 1932, and is awarded to service members "wounded or killed in any action against an enemy of the United States or as a result of an act of any such enemy or opposing armed forces".
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