He had earned a Purple Heart, a European-African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with two bronze service ... they were deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. He said his grandfather was “my buddy ...

This rule does not apply to those who receive the medal while still in ... The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have "greatly increased" the number of Purple Heart recipients as the Department of ...

That's why the gold medal on a purple ribbon bears the profile of Washington. The original badge was directed by Washington to be “the figure of a heart in purple cloth, or silk, edged with ...

But due to "racial inequalities in the United States at that time," Fletcher never received his Purple Heart, a medal given to military members who are either wounded or killed by the enemy during ...