MidHudson News: Expect Purple Heart Commemorative Coins Next Year
March 25, 2021
NEW WINDSOR – Less than a month before President Donald Trump left office, he signed a bill days before Christmas creating the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor Commemorative Coin.
On Thursday, Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, [D, NY-18), who helped sponsor the bill, shared the honor with Purple Heart recipients and their families yards away from the entrance to the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor.
“We went to work on this, and we came up with this idea to have a Congressional coin minted here at West Point to honor those who have earned the Purple Heart,” said Maloney. “It’s a huge and very lengthy process to get the sponsors to get it done.”