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The Purple Heart Memorial Bridge. Part of the Alexandria-Pineville Expressway (also referred to as the Cottingham Expressway), it connects Interstate 49 to Highway 167 by crossing the Red River from downtown Alexandria to Pineville.
A Law Enforcement Purple Heart and Certificate issued by the National Association of Chiefs of Police. United States law enforcement decorations are awarded by the police forces of the United States of America. Since the United States has a decentralized police force, with separate independent departments existing on the state and local level ...
Buddy Caldwell, Attorney General of Louisiana, elected in 2007 Graves B. Erskine, U.S. Marine Corps general; combat officer in World War I, having received the Silver Star and Purple Heart; U.S. Commander of the 3rd Marine Division in World War II in the Battle of Iwo Jima, having earned the Distinguished Service Medal J.D. DeBlieux, Louisiana ...
The Purple Heart (PH) is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the president to those wounded or killed while serving, on or after 5 April 1917, with the U.S. military. With its forerunner, the Badge of Military Merit, which took the form of a heart made of purple cloth, the Purple Heart is the oldest military award still given to U.S. military members. The National Purple ...
Gay rights activist. Technical Sergeant Leonard Phillip Matlovich (July 6, 1943 – June 22, 1988) [1] was an American Vietnam War veteran, race relations instructor, and recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. [2] He was the first gay service member to purposely out himself to the military to fight their ban on gays, and perhaps the ...
The Military Order of the Purple Heart (MOPH) is a congressionally chartered (Title 36 USC Chapter 1405) United States war veterans organization. Headquartered just outside Washington, D.C., it has a membership of approximately 45,300 veterans. It is unique in that its members are exclusively men and women who have received the Purple Heart award while serving as a member of the U.S. Military. [2]
American. Occupation (s) Officer, US Army Nurse Corps. Maj. Annie G. Fox (August 4, 1893 – January 20, 1987) was a Canadian-born American, the first woman to receive the Purple Heart for combat. [1] She served as the chief nurse in the Army Nurse Corps at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941.
Needham Roberts (April 28, 1901 – April 18, 1949) was an American soldier in the Harlem Hellfighters and recipient of the Purple Heart and the Croix de Guerre for his valor during World War I.
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