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 ...

SPRINGFIELD — A former Marine from Western Massachusetts pleaded guilty this week to fraudulently filing for a Purple Heart ...

Purple Heart Day is August 7. What Military Service Members Are Eligible for ... That's why the gold medal on a purple ribbon bears the profile of Washington. The original badge was directed ...

Kennedy signed Executive Order 11016 and formally established the rules for awarding the Purple Heart medal: Military service animals are no longer able to receive the award. Kennedy received the ...

Years of service in the Army sparked a Bond Hill native’s dedication to service that has now led him to being a police ...

He was 24 years old. During the service today, the police chief posthumously awarded Labonte the Purple Heart medal which is given to an officer injured in the line of duty by a hostile act from ...

Both men earned medals for their service in the Vietnam War ... His injuries in combat made him eligible to receive a Purple Heart medal. He never got it. Michael Vaccaro knows the feeling.

Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Samuel B. Savilla III received both the KCSO Deputy of the Year award and the department’s first ever Purple Heart Medal Thursday night, Feb. 20, 2025.

The Purple Heart wasn’t revived until Feb. 22, 1932, on Washington’s 200th birthday. Designed by Elizabeth Will, an Army heraldic specialist, the modern medal was awarded for meritorious service, but ...