{"id":70154,"date":"2017-02-07T08:34:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T13:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70154"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:34:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:34:53","slug":"house-bill-proposed-to-protect-purple-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70154","title":{"rendered":"House Bill proposed to protect Purple Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/purpleheart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-70155 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/purpleheart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/purpleheart.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/purpleheart-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/purpleheart-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/purpleheart-333x333.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Purple Heart Preservation Act, or H.R. 544 would make it illegal to sell the Purple Heart medal and or the Certificate of Award for a Purple Heart. \u00a0The Bill is named after\u00a0Private Corrado Piccoli who was wounded during World War II. \u00a0 An article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/military\/drew-brooks-bill-stops-purple-heart-sales\/article_24a42a9a-a6bd-5b33-b959-09e1e291d7e5.html\">HERE<\/a> has some information about it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bill would prevent merchants from selling military-issued Purple Hearts, eliminating the market for such medals and making it easier for stolen or misplaced medals to be returned to their rightful owners. It would not prevent the sale of replacement medals through authorized sellers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One would think that is pretty straight forward. \u00a0If you were never authorized to wear a Purple Heart, you should probably not own one. \u00a0But, as with all matters of common sense these days:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many opponents of the bill have questioned its restrictions of civil liberties in regards to the right of a veteran or family to sell their medal if they do so choose. The bill still allows these parties to gift their medals, and it allows medal enthusiast to still own them,&#8221; according to the organization. &#8220;The bill simply prevents selling them, which protects the integrity of the medal itself and the legacy and or sacrifice of that veteran. We as a country owe them that respect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I doubt selling a Purple Heart is considered a Civil Liberty by most Americans. \u00a0There are several organizations that work diligently to protect and preserve the Purple Heart medal and those who earned it. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/purpleheartsreunited.org\/\">Purple Hearts Reunited<\/a>\u00a0spends a lot of energy and time doing exactly that.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h5><strong>Mission: To return lost or stolen military medals of valor to veterans or their families, in order to honor their sacrifice to the nation.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I have an idea for those who earned a Purple Heart and need a few bucks. \u00a0Turn it back in to supply, something about being wounded and then selling the medal is repugnant. \u00a0When you turn it back into supply bring the voucher here to TAH and some of us will scrape up enough money to get you a bus ticket and launch you on a journey to find your self respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Purple Heart Preservation Act, or H.R. 544 would make it illegal to sell the Purple Heart &hellip; <a title=\"House Bill proposed to protect Purple Heart\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70154\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">House Bill proposed to protect Purple Heart<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":70155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historical","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}