Stars & Stripes: Purple Heart veterans sought for Honor Flight-like trip
By STARS AND STRIPES
Published: July 21, 2020
A project honoring America’s combat-wounded veterans is seeking nominees for an expenses-paid trip next year to the Purple Heart museum and other historic sites in upstate New York.
The National Purple Heart Honor Mission’s four-day trip to New York’s Hudson Valley in August 2021 will include ceremonies at the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, U.S. Military Academy at West Point and George Washington’s headquarters, where the medal originated as the Badge of Military Merit in 1782.
America’s oldest military medal in continuous use, the Purple Heart is awarded to troops wounded in combat. The program to honor them was inspired by the Honor Flight program that flies veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit war memorials, the organization’s website says.