The original badge was directed by Washington to be “the figure of a heart in purple cloth, or silk, edged with narrow lace or binding.” But that award fell out of use after the Revolutionary ...

More than 100 years after being wounded in World War I’s largest battle, Pvt. Alonzo Stanton has finally been recognized with ...

The profile on the front of the Purple Heart is Gen. George Washington, who established the Badge of Military Merit — the precursor to the Purple Heart — in 1782, when he was commander-in ...

"The Badge of Military Merit is significant, because it is the inspiration for the modern Purple Heart," said Peter Bedrossian, program director of the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, in New ...

Gen. George Washington, the commander in chief of the Continental Army, created the Badge of Military Merit (which would later be renamed the Purple Heart award) on Aug. 7, 1782.

The Purple Heart was created by Gen. George Washington in 1782 as the "Badge of Military Merit." Though never officially abolished, the medal was not awarded again until 1932 under President ...

Today is Purple Heart Appreciation Day. Lexington business owner arrested after police say he defrauded over 25 victims out of more than $300,000 total ...

Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, a Purple Heart recipient and an Iraq war veteran, strode into the hearing room with chest and shoulders trimmed with his Combat Infantry Badge, his Ranger tab and ...

John Spencer Jr. – now 73 – was broke into tears after being given a Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman Badge and the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross at the University of North Carolina ...

He had earned a Purple Heart, a European-African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with two bronze service stars, a combat infantryman badge, and the good conduct and World War II victory medals ...

Gen. George Washington, the commander in chief of the Continental Army, created the Badge of Military Merit (which would later be renamed the Purple Heart award) on Aug. 7, 1782.