How many purple hearts have been given

Reckless a horse also earned Purple Hearts. There is no way to know how many members of the Legion have Purple Hearts as a result of their service, but a search of the Legiontown website or the American Legion national website yields stories of Purple Hearts earned, lost, found and more.

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The earliest conflict for which there are known recipients is the American Civil War. From on it was limited to service men and women wounded or killed by enemy action on or after 5 April Records were sometimes lost during wartime when headquarters were overrun and unfortunately many Army and Army Air Force records were lost during a fire at the National Personnel Records Center in We do not have the names of all the recipients as there is no comprehensive list of Purple Heart recipients in existence.

As stated above, the actual number of awards is unknown. We do not automatically receive information when a person is awarded a Purple Heart.

Our enrollments are voluntary and come to us from the recipients, their families or their friends. Just sixty miles north of Manhattan and twelve miles north of the United States Military Academy at West Point, it is co-located with the New Windsor Cantonment, which was an extensive military post housing some 7, soldiers and civilian dependents in the closing months of the Revolutionary War.

Officers met here in a building called the "Temple of Virtue" to review candidates for the Badge of Military Merit, the inspiration for today's Purple Heart. In , veterans of World War I received their awards on these very grounds. The Roll of Honor is an electronic database created to preserve and share the stories of Purple Heart recipients. It can be accessed at six interactive computer kiosks at the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor and online through this website.

Visitors to the Hall or the website can learn about individual Purple Heart recipients by reading the stories and looking at the photographs, video clips and other documents that have been submitted to the Hall of Honor. Enrollment is voluntary. If you are interested in learning more about the enrollment process, please refer to "How do I enroll a Purple Heart Recipient?

First select "Roll of Honor" from the links at the top of the homepage of this website.