...They ordered the creation of 500,000 Purple Heart medals in anticipation of the casualties....
IIRC the Purple Hearts given out since the end of WWII to today are part of that original
Japan invasion batch. They have an additional place in history.
0bama’s setting up the US to get nuked and invaded thereafter as payback; the invasion forces arrive every minute, with 10,000+ ‘Syrians’ by EOY 2016 alone.
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Are Purple Hearts from 1945 still being awarded?
In 1945, the U.S. military expected up to 1 million casualties in the invasion of Japan, so the services stocked up on Purple Hearts.
But Japan surrendered after the atomic bombings and Soviet invasion of Manchuria, leaving the services with
hundreds of thousands of Purple Hearts that were no longer needed.
...Purple Hearts from World War II had different ribbons than medals built nowadays, but the refurbished Purple Hearts have been given new
ribbons to put them in line with current requirements, making the old and new awards look almost identical, Giangreco said.
THE RUMOR DOCTOR’S DIAGNOSIS: It sounds like Purple Hearts from World War II are still ready to be awarded to troops wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan. We can only hope the services will need as few of them as possible.
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