http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/purpleheart/ en-us Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:29:19 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388436/posts Washington (CNN) -- Military victims of the Fort Hood massacre will be eligible to receive the Purple Heart if Congress passes a bill introduced Tuesday. Non-military victims could receive the Secretary of Defense Medal of Freedom -- the civilian equivalent of the Purple Heart. Both military and civilian personnel killed or wounded in the November 5 attack would be granted the same legal status as combatant casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq. The bill was introduced by Texas GOP Rep. John Carter, who represents Fort Hood in the House of Representatives. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388436/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:29:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2386646/posts There is no massive statue at Sagami Bay of an angel with a sword and a coronet. No rows of white crosses above “99 Beach.”*** That the region around Tokyo isn't dotted with American war memorials is a matter of science, luck, politics – and endless controversy. These were all objectives in Operation Coronet, the planned seaborne attack on Tokyo in World War II. The greatest battle that never was. Guadalcanal, North Africa, Italy, Tarawa, Saipan, D-Day, Iwo Jima, Okinawa – even the planned invasion of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu – were all prelude. Each a step toward... OC Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2386646/posts#comment Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:12:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2384391/posts I'm not military, but my understanding is that a Purple Heart is for those wounded in action. Do these dead and wounded qualify? If not, would it be proper to lobby for them to receive the medal. vanity question http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2384391/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:07:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383407/posts FORT HOOD -- This is the latest information on the injured. There are 16 people still hospitalized, including the alleged shooter. Seven victims are still in intensive care unit and 9 others people are still being treated. KXXV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383407/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:21:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382903/posts Should they get the Purple Heart? The soldiers who were shot Thursday at Fort Hood, the ones who were killed and the ones who survived -- should they get the Purple Heart? It’s the medal, generally speaking, that we give GIs who are wounded by enemy action in combat. Often, when dignitaries come through military hospitals, they will award the Purple Heart to recuperating soldiers, Marines, airmen and sailors. If you are hit by an IED, you get the Purple Heart. If you are shot in a firefight, you get the Purple Heart. If you get a shrapnel wound from... boblonsberry.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382903/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:36:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382156/posts by deeming this a "criminal" act, instead of a terrorist attack, will the Obama administration refuse giving Purple Hearts to our wounded and fallen at Fort Hood? General Cone should not be considered for further promotion, and probably relieved of command for failing to properly secure the Fort Hood installation in wartime. General Casey, Chief of Staff of the Army is working to treat this event as a "criminal act" and not a wartime "terrorist attack". This foolish, "politically correct" thinking is what lead to the 9/11 attacks: a failure to properly identify, and react to, a deliberate attack on... Right Side News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382156/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:35:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344961/posts At least the 4th incident this month where homeowners stood their ground against intrudersNaked, grizzled and grumpy after having been rudely awakened, Robert E. Thompson, of Lake Worth, Fla., reached for his loaded .38 caliber revolver and shuffled his way out back where his dog was growling ferociously. The World War II veteran encountered a drunken man who couldn’t speak English; 26-year-old Jose Pasqual was trying to fend off Thompson’s Rottweiler/Doberman pinscher mix, according to the Palm Beach Post. Thompson pointed his gun at the intruder, who had just scaled a fence into his yard. Pasqual took a step towards... NBC Miami http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344961/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:13:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2341812/posts Forward Operating Base Shank, Afghanistan - The soldiers in his New York-based combat unit call Staff Sgt. Brandon Camacho the "Bullet Magnet." Camacho - either the luckiest or unluckiest soldier in Afghanistan - is on his second tour here with the Fort Drum-based 10th Mountain Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team. The reason for the nickname: He's just earned his fifth Purple Heart after being shot in the left knee in a firefight 100 miles south of Kabul, military officials said. "One of my friends said, 'You're the luckiest unlucky person I know,'" said Camacho, 24, who grew up in Saipan... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2341812/posts#comment Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:56:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310108/posts ~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~Happy 77th to the Purple Heart Canteen Mission StatementShowing support and boosting the morale ofour military and our allies militaryand the family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. President George W. Bush shakes the hand of Marine Cpl. Andrew L. Tinsley of Annapolis, Md., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005, after Cpl Tinsley was presented the Purple Heart during a visit by the President and Laura Bush to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. White House photo by Paul Morse. The Purple Heart is an American decoration-the oldest military decoration in... Serving The Best Troops And Veterans In The World http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2310108/posts#comment Fri, 7 Aug 2009 01:00:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292294/posts SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. -- A Seminole County family is happy to get a piece of its family history back, even if it's not the real thing. Two years ago, a Purple Heart awarded to Ray Cox was stolen during a burglary. Private Cox was killed in combat in 1950. Monday, Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas presented his family with a replacement medal. Cox's sister, Dorothy Clawson, is grateful to have the medal, but wishes she could have Ray back. "I would have liked to seen him grow up to be a man and see what he turned out to be. He was... WFTV 9 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292294/posts#comment Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:35:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264662/posts In conjuntion with www.freerepublic.com, The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), Patriot Guard (AR), and Alerts Secure Arkansas is planning a huge rally to support our military. It will be held on Thursday, June 4th, at 4 p.m., in front of the Army-Navy Recruiting Station at Ashley Square, corner of Reservoir Road and Rodney Parham in Little Rock (. This is an emergency rally to show respect for our troops and let them know we mourn the loss of soldier William Long and the wounding of soldier Quinton Ezeagwula. Please bring your Flags, yellow ribbons, and signs. For more... SECURE ARKANSAS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264662/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:26:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2261653/posts Governor Sarah Palin, with Jeff Roy, National Commander of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, pins the Purple Heart Medal on Wayne Stackhouse, with his wife, Ilene by his side. Also pictured, the Operation Denali climbing team, who begin their ascent of North America's tallest mountain on June 1, 2009. Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Accomplishments http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2261653/posts#comment Sun, 31 May 2009 16:25:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261517/posts KETCHIKAN, Alaska - Alaska's upcoming vacancy on the state Supreme Court has drawn 25 applicants, including 10 Superior Court judges. Justice Robert L. Eastaugh, 65, is retiring in November. He was appointed in 1994. Newsminer Fairbanks http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261517/posts#comment Sun, 31 May 2009 06:45:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2225761/posts Ninety-one years after a Herkimer soldier was injured in World War I, he's posthumously awarded the Purple Heart. In 1918, Private First Class Floyd Jackson was on patrol for his unit in France when the German Army released chlorine gas. Jackson warned his unit to put on their gas masks. By doing so, he inhaled the gas himself, but his actions saved the lives of the men in his unit. He had lung damage and was hospitalized and discharged in 1919. On Monday, his daughters received his Purple Heart from Congressman Michael Arcuri. Purple Heart awarded after 91 years Ninety-one... News10 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2225761/posts#comment Thu, 9 Apr 2009 18:42:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204689/posts 3/11/2009 - POPE AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. (AFNS) -- Tears stood in Sue Rhyner's eyes as she talked about her son, who, in a ceremony March 10 here received the Air Force Cross, the highest military decoration awarded by the service, and a Purple Heart. Staff Sgt. Zachary Rhyner of the 21st Special Tactics Squadron from Pope Air Force Base, N.C., received the medal for uncommon valor during Operation Enduring Freedom before a crowd of hundreds dotted with combat controllers' red berets. The decoration is second only to the Medal of Honor, and is awarded by the president. "This is... Air Force Link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204689/posts#comment Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:41:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2163021/posts Fort Lewis is the setting for an emotional Purple Heart ceremony more than 43 years after a young Marine was hurt in Vietnam. The corpsman who treated him attends. The News Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2163021/posts#comment Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:25:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161867/posts 1/9/2009 - WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- On Christmas Eve, Master Sgt. David Webber wasn't thinking about Santa or sugarplums. He wasn't wrapping presents for his two boys or his wife. He was in a guard tower. In Afghanistan. Helping scan for snipers. But that was before being hit with chunks of shrapnel that had him losing a pint of blood a minute. Since then Sergeant Webber has been recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Jan. 8 was invited to the Pentagon to receive his Purple Heart medal from Gen. Norton Schwartz, the chief of staff of the Air Force.... Air Force Link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161867/posts#comment Fri, 9 Jan 2009 23:29:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2160797/posts The Pentagon has decided that it will not award the Purple Heart, the hallowed medal given to those wounded or killed by enemy action, to war veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder because it is not a physical wound. The Raleigh News and Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2160797/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:32:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150636/posts Charles Dragich survived the fighting in the Philippines, the Bataan Death March, a "hell ship," two bouts of malaria, near starvation, an air raid and slave labor.He emerged from a Japanese prisoner of war camp in 1945 at half his normal weight of 160 pounds, then promptly re-enlisted. He wore the uniform of the Army, and later the Air Force, for 26 years, retiring in 1964 as a chief master sergeant.Rather improbably and inexplicably, Dragich left the military without any decorations for fighting and surviving one of World War II’s most inhumane episodes — a forced 65-mile march in which... FWST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150636/posts#comment Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:15:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148714/posts Jamie plops down on the couch with the two most significant members of her menagerie: Rex and Mike. Rex is an 8-year-old bomb-sniffing German shepherd. He was blown out of Jamie's Humvee after they searched a village outside Kirkuk. Rex suffered a singed nose, but Jamie thought he was dead. Mike is the Army medic who helped save her life that day in Iraq. And he later became her husband. {snip} Jamie spent four months at Walter Reed. She met Wayne Newton, was awarded the Purple Heart and discovered that her beloved Rex was alive. "They told me he was... NPR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148714/posts#comment Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:59:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2113628/posts At John McCain’s rallies these days, the talk is of taxes and Joe the Plumber and the financial crisis and mortgage relief and an end to wasteful federal spending. Those are all perfectly fine things for a campaign to emphasize; polls show voters of all stripes are overwhelmingly concerned about the economy. But at McCain’s events, you’ll also find people who’ve come for another reason, one that is slipping in the polls of voters’ concerns but is deeply personal to them: the war in Iraq. “I just gave John McCain my Purple Heart,” Marine Sgt. Jack Eubanks told me a... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2113628/posts#comment Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:11:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112939/posts At John McCain’s rallies these days, the talk is of taxes and Joe the Plumber and the financial crisis and mortgage relief and an end to wasteful federal spending. Those are all perfectly fine things for a campaign to emphasize; polls show voters of all stripes are overwhelmingly concerned about the economy. But at McCain’s events, you’ll also find people who’ve come for another reason, one that is slipping in the polls of voters’ concerns but is deeply personal to them: the war in Iraq. “I just gave John McCain my Purple Heart,” Marine Sgt. Jack Eubanks told me a... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2112939/posts#comment Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:17:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100927/posts 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. “The Purple Heart is an award worn with great pride and recognizes that the servicemember has been wounded or killed as a... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100927/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 00:28:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2053925/posts My great uncle was captured in the Philippines by the Japanese during World War II, and died during the Bataan Death March. As far as I remember, I cannot recall anyone in my family saying that he was awarded the Purple Heart. If he was never awarded the Purple Heart, would he be eligible? If he did get it, how can I find out? myself http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2053925/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:48:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2023146/posts I ran across an article in the Army Times regarding the issuing of giving Purple Hearts to individuals suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) sustained during combat. This appears to be the origin of much debate… It seems to be that many members of the military want to continue distributing the award based on "singularly meritorious act of fidelity service" and that "a wound which necessitates treatment by a medical officer and which is received in action with an enemy, may, in the judgment of the commander authorized to make the award, be construed as resulting from a singularly... Right Up Front http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/2023146/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 19:57:57 GMT