Honor Mission Executive Director Col. Russ Vernon joined Newsmax TV's American Agenda to talk about the opening of nominations for the 2023 Purple Heart Patriot Project Mission.
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Honor Mission Executive Director Col. Russ Vernon and 2021 Purple Heart Patriot Project honoree for Delaware, Joe Hill, joined Jeff Crouere on WGSO-AM to encourage people to nominate Purple Heart recipients for the 2023 Patriot Project Mission.
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The National Purple Heart Honor Mission announced today that it has opened the nomination process for its 2023 Purple Heart Patriot Project. This moving multi-day salute to service will bring together Purple Heart heroes from across America to pay tribute to their courage and sacrifice on behalf of a grateful nation.
Anyone can nominate a Purple Heart recipient by completing the nomination form on the Honor Mission’s website: www.purpleheartmission.org/patriot-project. Nominations should include a short description (up to 350 words) of why their hero is deserving of this special recognition and should focus not only on their military service but their post-military life including community service, charitable work and career.
Nominations will be accepted until December 31. Nominees may not be self-nominated.
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“Today we come together to honor the service and sacrifice of those great Americans on National Purple Heart Day, and recommit ourselves to ensuring a whole new generation of Americans remember their courage and never forget,” said retired Army Col. Russ Vernon, the organization’s executive director, during the ceremony. Vernon served from 1976 until retiring in 2004 from the Army National Guard.
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BATON ROUGE, La. – The Louisiana National Guard used Sunday, August 7 to commemorate National Purple Heart Day by recognizing service members who died or were wounded while in combat.
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The National Purple Heart Honor Mission hosted a ceremony honoring and paying tribute to the brave men and women wounded and killed in enemy action.
A Purple Heart is one of the most recognizable awards of the United States armed forces. As of today, two million service members have been recipients of this incredible badge of honor.
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Aug. 07, 2022 - Marine Corps veterans Dan Clarino, Erle Mutz and Michael Rudman, who are all Purple Heart recipients, joined 'Fox & Friends Weekend' on Sunday.
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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.
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As part of the nationwide celebration of National Purple Heart Day, the National Purple Heart Honor Mission will premiere a special tribute video featuring prominent military leaders, Purple Heart recipients and prominent Americans paying tribute to the brave men and women of America’s Armed Forces who have been wounded or killed defending our nation.
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Available 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.
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Numismatic 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.
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“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.
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On 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.
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The 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.
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In 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.
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Outside 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.
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On 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.
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GILBERT, 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.
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