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Purple Heart Ralph Henry Johnson (January 11, 1949 – March 5, 1968) was a United States Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism in March 1968 during the Vietnam War .
The Purple Heart (PH) is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the president to those wounded or killed while serving, on or after 5 April 1917, with the U.S. military.
Vietnam War veteran Alvin Lawrence Alce, of Key West, wears a Purple Heart medal on his chest on Aug. 8, 2022, the day he finally received the decoration 53 years after he was wounded in combat.
A complete list of Private First Class Anderson's medals and decorations includes: the Medal of Honor, the Purple Heart, the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal with one bronze star, the Vietnamese Military Merit Medal, the Vietnamese Gallantry Cross with Palm, and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.
Vietnam Veteran Throwing Medal at the U.S. Capital. On April 23, 1971 Vietnam Veterans Against the War staged what was arguably "one of the most dramatic and influential events of the antiwar movement" as hundreds of Vietnam veterans, dressed in combat fatigues and well worn uniforms, stepped up, and angrily, one after another for three straight hours, hurled their military medals, ribbons ...
Donald Trump accepted a Purple Heart medal from a Vietnam War veteran, despite famously dodging military service himself.. The Republican presidential nominee has been branded “disrespectful ...