US Army SSG Vanessa Schieber, of Northampton County, PA, was name among the Patriot Project's honorees for 2023. The Purple Heart Patriot Project is a program of the National Purple Heart Honor Mission.
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She was born in Germany, received a college tennis scholarship, served in the U.S. military, was shot while serving in Iraq, was severely injured by an IED in Afghanistan, earned her Ph.D. and is now a high school English teacher.
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U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Ed O’Neal represented his fellow Purple Heart heroes as North Carolina’s representative at the multi-day tribute to the courage and sacrifice of America’s combat wounded.
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MISSOULA, Mont. — U.S. Navy Radioman Third Class Steven "Gus" Gustuson represented Montana at a Purple Heart Patriot Project event. Gustuson has two Purple Hearts from shrapnel wounds during his time serving in the 1960s.
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U.S. Army National Guard Sergeant Blanca Taylor represented her fellow Purple Heart heroes as Nevada’s representative at the multi-day tribute to the courage and sacrifice of America’s combat wounded.
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U.S. Navy Radioman Third Class Steven “Gus” Gustuson represented his fellow Purple Heart heroes as Montana’s representative at the multi-day tribute to the courage and sacrifice of America’s combat wounded.
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U.S. Marine Corps Chief Warrant Officer 5 Walter Schley represented his fellow Purple Heart heroes as Missouri’s honoree at the multi-day tribute to the courage and sacrifice of America’s combat wounded.
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We celebrated and stood for our flag and those who sacrificed all for America and Americans and brought Purple Heart heroes from across America, who were greeted with a star-spangled welcome home at a public rally at the Newburgh Armory for the National Purple Heart Honor Mission’s 2023 Purple Heart Patriot Project.
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U.S. Army Sergeant William “Billy” Dobbs represented his fellow Purple Heart heroes as Mississippi’s representative at the multi-day tribute to the courage and sacrifice of America’s combat wounded.
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U.S. Army PFC Robert Senter represented his fellow Purple Heart heroes as the national at-large honoree at the multi-day tribute to the courage and sacrifice of America’s combat wounded.
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SIOUX CITY — Like many who have been in military combat, Patrick Burgess was less than an inch, sometimes maybe a second or two, away from having his Purple Heart awarded posthumously.
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He was ambushed multiple times, shot at least twice, still has bullet fragments in his leg, but doesn’t consider himself heroic. Still, a South St. Paul, two-time Purple Heart, veteran is receiving national honors this week.
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Purple Heart heroes from across the America will be greeted with a star-spangled welcome home at a public rally in Newburgh that will serve as the capstone event for the National Purple Heart Honor Mission’s 2023 Purple Heart Patriot Project.
The rally is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. (ET) on Thursday, September 30 at the Newburgh Armory Unity Center. Doors will open at 6:00 p.m.
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U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern was livid too, and he called on us to speak up so he could bring our voices back to the VA secretary in Washington. At a listening session that spring at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8006 in Florence with McGovern and other local leaders, Jim Bouchard of Granby, a Navy combat corpsman in Vietnam, was there, as he always is, when veterans have been asked to lay it on the line.
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GRANBY — In January 1970, while serving as a hospital corpsman in Vietnam, Jim Bouchard treated John Hurley after he was injured during the war. It wasn’t until decades later, when the two Purple Heart recipients were at a Veterans of Foreign Wars meeting together, that they realized their connection.
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SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - A Sioux City native will represent the state of Iowa as a Purple Heart recipient and one of the nation’s 2023 Purple Heart Patriot Project honorees.
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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KCAU) — A Sioux City veteran has been chosen to be one of the honorees for the 2023 Purple Heart Patriot Project mission.
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Purple Heart recipient Armando Martinez IV of Fairbanks is “stoked” to represent Alaska at the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, West Point, next week.
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U.S. Marine Corps Corporal Walter Kaczmarek will represent his fellow Purple Heart heroes from New Jersey at a multi-day tribute to the courage and sacrifice of America’s combat wounded. The trip is being made possible thanks to generous support from Amboy Bank.
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U.S. Army Sergeant (SGT) Patrick Burgess will represent his fellow Purple Heart heroes as Iowa’s representative at a multi-day tribute to the courage and sacrifice of America’s combat wounded.
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