LtGen (Ret.) James D. Hughes, US Air Force – Purple Heart Recipient, WWII. Korea, Vietnam Founding member of National Purple Heart Hall of Honor

LtGen (Ret.) James D. Hughes, US Air Force – Purple Heart Reipient, WWII. Korea, Vietnam, National Purple Heart Hall of Honor Founder

"Later, in my senior years of command, it was my duty and my honored privilege, to present Purple Hearts to our wounded veterans. Unfortunately, too many of them were presented posthumously to their families. Those were the hard ones.”