Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Purple Heart Trail can refer to: Interstate 5 in California, Oregon and Washington; Interstate 10 in Alabama and Arizona; Interstate 15 in Montana Interstate 115 in ...
Purple Heart Trail marker on Interstate 35. The Purple Heart Trail system, established by the MOPH in 1992, is purposed to "create a symbolic and honorary system of roads, highways, bridges, and other monuments that give tribute to the men and women who have been awarded the Purple Heart medal."
I-10 through Arizona is designated a "Purple Heart Trail", after the Purple Heart, the award received by American soldiers wounded in combat. [2] The western terminus is located at the California border at the Colorado River in La Paz County where I-10 continues westward into California towards Los Angeles.
May 30—T his is a story about one man's mission to honor those who fought and bled for this country on battlefields far from these New Hampshire hills. It's also a story about fathers and sons.
The Interstate is also referred to as the Purple Heart Trail to honor those wounded in combat who have received the Purple Heart. [2] It enters Arizona from the west at a crossing of the Colorado River southwest of Kingman .
Kansas has 169 documented Purple Heart honorees. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — The families of five Hawaii men who served in a unit of Japanese-language linguists during World War II received posthumous Purple Heart medals on behalf of their ...
The Purple Heart award is a 1 + 3 ⁄ 8-inch-wide (35 mm) purple- and gold-colored heart-shaped brass-alloy medal containing a profile of General George Washington. Above the heart appears a shield of the coat of arms of George Washington (a white shield with two red bars and three red stars in chief) between sprays of green leaves.