Donate now. Acknowledging that commanders have sometimes wrongly denied the Purple Heart to soldiers who suffered battlefield concussions, the Army plans to issue new guidance to clarify when such ...

Nearly 15 years after the explosion that mangled his body and left him hospitalized for almost two years, former Army Cpl. Chris Levi of Melville was awarded the Purple Heart last weekend for ...

In 1967, Robert Terrell, then a U.S. Army specialist in Vietnam ... official confirmation of his nearly ultimate sacrifice: a Purple Heart. “I was trained to go to Vietnam and in recon ...

The Army now recognizes a perforated eardrum as a qualifying combat-related injury for award of the Purple Heart, according to a new MILPER message released this month. The change went into effect ...