(NEWBURGH, NY) – The National Purple Heart Honor Mission announced today that it is opening the nomination process for its 2021 Purple Heart Patriot Project. This multi-day salute to service will bring together Purple Heart heroes representing each state and territory in the nation to pay tribute to their courage and sacrifice on behalf of a grateful nation.
Read MoreWASHINGTON – Legislation that would create a Purple Heart commemorative coin has been introduced in the US Senate by Charles Schumer. The measure has already won approval in the House, advanced by Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney.
Read MoreNEW WINDSOR –The National Purple Heart Honor Mission presented U.S. Army General (Ret.) David Perkins and former U.S. Marine Corps Corporal Megan Leavey with the organization’s Genesis Legacy Medal during the annual dinner on October 3.
The Medal presentation follows the success of the organization’s recent Purple Heart Patriot Project that received national attention for bringing Purple Heart recipients from across the country to the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor and West Point. The Purple Heart Patriot Project, sponsored in part by American Airlines, is a new annual tribute program of the group.
Read More(NEWBURGH, NY) –The National Purple Heart Honor Mission is proud to announce that U.S. Army General (Ret.) David Perkins and former U.S. Marine Corps Corporal Megan Leavey will be the recipients of the 2019 Genesis Medal during the organization’s Annual Genesis Legacy Medal Dinner. A dinner in their honor will be held on October 3, just north of West Point, New York.
Read MoreNEW WINDSOR (Tribune News Service) — Purple Heart recipient Megan Leavey told an audience at Anthony’s Pier 9 on Thursday night she considered herself lucky to be there.
“I can look around the room and see I’m in good company,” said Leavey, a former Marine corporal. “I am happy to be talking to you.”
Read MoreNEW WINDSOR — Purple Heart recipient Megan Leavey told an audience at Anthony’s Pier 9 on Thursday night she considered herself lucky to be there.
“I can look around the room and see I’m in good company,” said Leavey, a former Marine corporal. “I am happy to be talking to you.”
Read More(NEWBURGH, NY) – In what would be a first for America’s Purple Heart recipients, a bill to approve a commemorative coin that honors our nation’s combat-wounded veterans recently took another step closer to becoming law.
With 307 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, the bill to authorize the minting of the special Purple Heart coin passed unanimously.
Read MoreNEW WINDSOR – About 1.8 million Americans have been awarded a Purple Heart for sustaining wounds in combat. That’s an estimate according to the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, in New Windsor, which counts back to 1932 and the modern version of the award, first given, in different form, by George Washington, not far from the current hall.
Read MoreWhen Vietnam veterans returned home from battle, Eugene Lang says the reality was many were treated with disrespect. "When we came home in 1969, people spit on us, so why not support us now?" Lang said. He received his Purple Heart award 44 years after being wounded in combat. Purple Heart recipients joined Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney on Tuesday to celebrate the House passing the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor Commemorative Coin Act.
Read MoreNEW WINDSOR, NY – Tuesday at 12:00PM (noon), Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-18) will hold a press conference celebrating the House passage of the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor Commemorative Coin Act.
Read MoreThe House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill on Thursday that would authorize the West Point mint to create three commemorative coins that would feature the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor in New Windsor and raise money for the nonprofit that supports it.
Read MoreWASHINGTON –A bill creating the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor Commemorative Coin has passed in the House of Representatives and will now go to the Senate for approval.
Read MoreOn Thursday, September 19, United States Representative Sean Patrick Maloney’s (D-NY18) bipartisan bill, the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor Commemorative Coin Act passed unanimously in the House, with the support of 307 cosponsors. The bill honors the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor and all our Purple Heart recipients with a commemorative coin provided by the United States Mint, and produced at the U.S. Mint at West Point.
Read More(NEWBURGH, NY) –The National Purple Heart Honor Mission is proud to announce that U.S. Army General (Ret.) David Perkins and former U.S. Marine Corps Corporal Megan Leavey will be the recipients of the 2019 Genesis Medal during the organization’s Annual Genesis Legacy Medal Dinner. A dinner in their honor will be held on October 3, just north of West Point, New York.
Read MoreFAIRBANKS, 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.
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