`` He recommended both of them for the DSM and the Detroit fellow for the Purple Heart, too, for a combat-inflicted wound.

It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.

Category: Recipients of the Purple Heart medal

He was awarded the Purple Heart and was given a medical discharge with the rank of Private First Class.

Category: Recipients of the Purple Heart medal

The reverse of the medal has the motto taken from the Great Seal of the United States, "" (" He Has Favored Our Undertakings ") and the date "" ( 1782 ) which is the date of America's first decoration, the Badge of Military Merit, now known as the Purple Heart.

The ribbon design also follows the pattern of the Purple Heart ribbon.

With its forerunner, the Badge of Military Merit, which took the form of a heart made of purple cloth, the Purple Heart is the oldest military award that is still given to members of the U. S. military, the only earlier award being the obsolete Fidelity Medallion.

The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor is located in New Windsor, New York.

The original Purple Heart, designated as the Badge of Military Merit, was established by George Washington — then the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army – by order from his Newburgh, New York headquarters on August 7, 1782.

Elizabeth Will, an Army heraldic specialist in the Office of the Quartermaster General, was named to redesign the newly revived medal, which became known as the Purple Heart.

Using general specifications provided to her, Will created the design sketch for the present medal of the Purple Heart.

Sign on Interstate 35 designating the Purple Heart Trail.

By Executive Order of the President of the United States, the Purple Heart was revived on the 200th Anniversary of George Washington's birth, out of respect to his memory and military achievements, by War Department General Orders No. 3, dated February 22, 1932.

The Purple Heart award is a heart-shaped medal within a gold border, 1 inches ( 35 mm ) wide, containing a profile of General George Washington.

Additional awards of the Purple Heart are denoted by oak leaf clusters ( U. S. Army and U. S. Air Force ) and by gold 5 / 16 inch stars ( U. S. Navy, Marine Corps, and U. S. Coast Guard ).

The first Purple Heart was awarded to MacArthur.

During the early period of American involvement in World War II ( December 7, 1941 – September 22, 1943 ), the Purple Heart was awarded both for wounds received in action against the enemy and for meritorious performance of duty.

With the establishment of the Legion of Merit, by an Act of Congress, the practice of awarding the Purple Heart for meritorious service was discontinued.

AR 600-45, dated September 22, 1943, and May 3, 1944 identify circumstances required to meet in order to be eligible for the Purple Heart for military and civilian personnel during World War II era.

Purple Heart Memorial, Westland, Michigan

Executive Order 11016, dated April 25, 1962, included provisions for posthumous award of the Purple Heart.

Executive Order 12464, dated February 23, 1984, authorized award of the Purple Heart as a result of terrorist attacks or while serving as part of a peacekeeping force subsequent to March 28, 1973.

Public Law 104-106 expanded the eligibility date, authorizing award of the Purple Heart to a former prisoner of war who was wounded before April 25, 1962.

* The Flying Sorcerers ( 1971, with David Gerrold ), previously serialised as " The Misspelled Magishun ", includes portraits of other SF authors — e. g. the lead character name becomes translated into the local language as " As a color, shade of purple-gray " ( or Purple for short ), that is, " As-A-Mauve "

Steven Spielberg initially refused to release a pan-and-scan version of Raiders of the Lost Ark but eventually gave in ( although he successfully ordered the letterboxed format for the home video releases of The Color Purple and Always ); Woody Allen refused altogether to release one of Manhattan, the letterbox version is therefore the only version available on VHS and DVD.

In the past, Purple was considered the color of royalty ( like white ), but today it is sometimes used for feminist parties.

" Purple Party " is also used as an academic hypothetical of an undefined party, as a centralist party in the United States ( because purple is created from mixing the main parties ' colours of red and blue ) and as a highly idealistic " peace and love " party -- in a similar vein to a Green Party, perhaps.

Another case where they are used is when it is not desirable to make rigorous links to parties, particularly when coalitions and alliances are formed between political parties and other organizations, for example: Red Tory, " Purple " ( Red-Blue ) alliances, Red-green alliances, Blue-green alliances, Traffic light coalitions, Pan-green coalitions, and Pan-blue coalitions.

In Philip Jose Farmer's " Riders of the Purple Wage ", there is a concept known as " the Pellucidar Breakthrough "

Above the estimates, the text reads, " Any tally of Purple Hearts is an estimate.

The Purple Heart is awarded in the name of the President of the United States to any member of the Armed Forces of the United States who, while serving under competent authority in any capacity with one of the U. S. Armed Services after April 5, 1917, has been wounded or killed.

Specific examples of services which warrant the Purple Heart include any action against an enemy of the United States ; any action with an opposing armed force of a foreign country in which the Armed Forces of the United States are or have been engaged ; while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party ; as a result of an act of any such enemy of opposing armed forces ; or as the result of an act of any hostile foreign force.

The Purple Heart differs from all other decorations in that an individual is not " recommended " for the decoration ; rather he or she is entitled to it upon meeting specific criteria.

A Purple Heart is authorized for the first wound suffered under conditions indicated above, but for each subsequent award an oak leaf cluster is awarded.

The Purple Heart is not awarded for non-combative injuries.

Today, the Purple Heart is only for those men and women in uniform.

The award authority for the Purple Heart is normally at the level of an Army Brigade, Marine Corps Division, Air Force Wing, or Navy Task Force.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 ( Public Law 105-85 ) changed the criteria to delete authorization for award of the Purple Heart to any civilian national of the United States while serving under competent authority in any capacity with the Armed Forces.

In some cases, however, veterans have been recommended for the Purple Heart, after the fact, by a United States Senator or Congressman.

In the history of cryptography, 97-shiki ōbun inji-ki ( 九七式欧文印字機 ) (" System 97 Printing Machine for European Characters ") or Angōki Taipu-B ( 暗号機 タイプB ) (" Type B Cipher Machine "), codenamed Purple by the United States, was a diplomatic cryptographic machine used by the Japanese Foreign Office just before and during World War II.

Fragment of a Type 97 " Purple " cipher machine obtained by the United States Army from the Japanese embassy in Berlin at the end of World War II.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs machine was the Angooki Taipu-B ( 暗号機 タイプB ) (" Type B Cipher Machine "), codenamed Purple by United States cryptanalysts.

The United States obtained portions of a Purple machine from the Japanese Embassy in Germany following Germany's defeat in 1945 ( see image above ) and discovered that the Japanese had used precisely the same " stepping switch " in its construction that Leo Rosen of SIS had chosen when building a " duplicate " ( or Purple analog machine ) in Washington in 1939 and 1940.

Purple cauliflower is a type of broccoli sold in southern Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

Haig was also awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Purple Heart during his tour in Vietnam, and was eventually promoted to Colonel, becoming a brigade commander of the 1st Infantry Division ( United States ) in Vietnam.

Completed in less than a month, Purple debuted at number one in the United States upon its release on June 7, 1994.

Purple Sage is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States.

He flew sixty-eight combat missions as a fighter pilot for the United States Army Air Corps in World War II and received the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Purple Heart, and the Air Medal.

The herbicides were procured by the U. S. military from Dow Chemical Company ( all but Blue ), Monsanto ( Orange, Purple and Pink ), Hercules Inc. ( Orange and Purple ), Thompson-Hayward Chemical Company ( Orange and Pink ), Diamond Alkali / Shamrock Company ( Orange, Blue, Purple and Pink ), United States Rubber Company ( Orange ), Thompson Chemicals Corporation ( Orange and Pink ), Agrisect Company ( Orange and Purple ), Hoffman-Taft Inc. ( Orange ), and the Ansul Chemical Company ( Blue ).