On Newsmax TV’s America Right Now, Honor Mission Board member Nathan Parker and 2021 Purple Heart Patriot Project honoree Col. Washington Sanchez spoke on behalf of Purple Heart recipients across the nation about what it means to wear the Purple Heart and how Americans can honor our heroes every day.
Read MoreAvailable in three denominations, this historic tribute to service and sacrifice in the form of limited-edition legal tender coins tells the story of the Purple Heart and the sacrifice of military heroes throughout our history. The coins will go on sale on Thursday, February 24 at 12:00pm EST and will be offered at a special discounted introductory rate by the Mint.
Read MoreNumismatic Guaranty Company (NGC) is excited to announce an exclusive partnership with the National Purple Heart Honor Mission, the coin’s congressionally-designated beneficiary organization, to offer collectors a special certification label featuring the organization’s logo for the US Mint’s commemorative coins. Starting February 24, the coins will be available for preorder from the US Mint and are expected to start shipping in June. Surcharges from each coin sold by the US Mint will support the National Purple Heart Honor Mission.
Read More“First advocate that our nation’s combat wounded and killed in action deserved a coin in their honor and then to go through the entire process of getting Congress to approve a coin and then getting to the point to where they are actually being minted is a great achievement and a quote fitting tribute to these Purple Heart heroes,” he said.
Read MoreOn Thursday, Feb. 24, the United States Mint will begin selling most of the 2022 National Purple Heart Hall of Honor Commemorative Coins. While the U.S. Mint will start taking orders for the coins on the 24th, the agency is not expected to begin shipping them until June 8.
Read MoreThe 2022 National Purple Heart Hall of Honor commemorative coin program will include a limited-edition colorized version of the 2022-W silver dollar.
The numismatic product is currently the final issue listed on the U.S. Mint’s online catalog, with a “to-be-determined” issue date.
Read MoreIn a news conference on Dec. 4 in Wappingers Falls, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney unveiled designs for three commemorative coins that will be released in 2022. Maloney, whose district includes the Highlands, introduced a bill that allowed the U.S. Mint at West Point to create them.
Read MoreOutside the Castle Point Veterans Affairs hospital in Fishkill, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney joined local veterans and members of the nonprofit National Purple Heart Honor Mission, to showcase the coins’ designs.
Read MoreOn Giving Tuesday, nurses at Northern Westchester Hospital gathered for a special, surprise ceremony to honor one of their own. Edie Meeks, who is a Registered Nurse working in Northern Westchester’s Operating Room, was a 1st Lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps in Saigon and Pleiku, Vietnam, from July 1968 to July 1969, where she treated countless American service members, many of whom had suffered life-altering injuries.
Read MoreGILBERT, Ariz. — 21-year-old Army Specialist Charles “Chuck” Byers was a tall young man whose call name was “Big Band Aid.” He served in the United States Army from 1966 to 1972. Anticipating he was going to be drafted, Byers enlisted and chose to go into the medical field.
Read MoreFrom Sept. 26 to Oct. 1, Troy Green was a part of the Purple Heart Patriot Project, an all-expense-paid trip to the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor in New Windsor, New York. The program is meant to connect veterans from across the country and serve as a multi-day tribute to “the courage and sacrifice of (America’s) combat wounded,” a press release said.
Read MoreU.S. Army Col. Russell O. Vernon (Ret.), the executive director of the National Purple Heart Honor Mission, offered praise for the designs: "These coins are an historic tribute to the courage displayed by our our nation's 1.8 million Purple Heart recipients. Our service members don't see themselves as heroes, but they are proof that the freedom we cherish comes at a cost. The designs created by the Mint's artists and sculptors include an array of elements that strongly the history of the Purple Heart, and the service and sacrifice made by Purple Heart recipients. It is such a meaningful tribute and the surcharge attached to each coin will help the National Purple Heart Honor Mission continue to tell our heroes' stories of valor to future generations of Americans.”
Read MoreThe designs will be featured on a gold coin, a silver coin, and a half dollar coin.
Read MoreActing U.S. Mint Director Ventris C. Gibson was in New York City for the introduction of the coin designs, which received final approval from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
Read MoreThe US Mint and National Purple Heart Honor Mission, Inc. unveiled the designs for the 2022 National Purple Heart Hall of Honor Commemorative Coins on Veterans Day.
Read MoreU.S. Mint acting director Ventris Gibson and National Purple Heart Honor Mission Exec. Director Russ Vernon unveil coins on 'Fox & Friends.'
Read MoreIn Abbey's case, that place was the Iraq War, and the thing that happened was an attack by insurgents in 2005 that could've easily killed him. Abbey was wounded in the attack, earning a Purple Heart, which is a medal given to soldiers wounded or killed in combat while serving in the military.
Read MoreAfter Robert Olzweski returned from Vietnam, he thought he was done with the military.
Little did he know, it would call him back once again.
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