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Purple Heart Trail can refer to: Interstate 5 in California, Oregon and Washington; ... Interstate 70 in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Ohio Interstate 470 in Kansas;
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 .
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."
Colorado introduced numeric county codes on its passenger and motorcycle license plates in 1932, with the order of the codes based on the populations of each of the state's 63 counties at the time. These codes were used through 1958 (except in Denver, which last used code 1 in 1955).
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.
Hiking trails in Colorado (2 C, 16 P) O. Old Spanish Trail (trade route) (1 C, 73 P) R. Roads on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado (9 P) S. Santa ...
Purple Heart Recipients Laura A. Piper, first female Air Force Academy graduate to be awarded the Purple Heart, killed April 14, 1994 (Piper was a passenger on a UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter and was shot down due to a friendly fire incident during a non-combat humanitarian aid mission after Operation Desert Storm).
It is the only Interstate Highway to travel from one end of Nebraska to another, as the state has no major north–south Interstate route. Except for a three-mile-long (4.8 km) portion of I-76 near the Colorado state line, I-80 is the only primary (two-digit) Interstate Highway in Nebraska.