Posted on 10/08/2008 5:28:23 PM PDT by SandRat
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2008 A policy change to expand eligibility for the Purple Heart award to prisoners of war who died in captivity represents the right decision that recognizes their sacrifice, a senior defense official told American Forces Press Service.
The Pentagon announced the new policy earlier this week that will extend criteria for receiving Purple Hearts to prisoners of war who have died in captivity since the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. |
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This is good.
Does anyone know how many individual from the Vietnam War this impacts. I thought perhaps Lance Sijan but when I looked him up I see he already was given the award posthumously.
Not off the top of my head.
Somewhat off topic: This is a link to the Congressional Medal of Honor citations.
The WWII citations? Let’s just say they make me feel like not much of a man, and make me beyond proud to be an American. These stories are of men acting far, far beyond the limits of human strength.
http://www.history.army.mil/moh.html
Impossible to read the citations without being humbled.
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