>Not to take away from those who earned a Purple Heart but the military loves to give them out for about anything.
They had crates full of the things left over after WWII because they were made in expectation of an invasion of the Japanese home islands. Naturally the invasion didn't end up happening, so they were just left with a whole bunch of medals and no one to give them to.
I think they're still using those medals to this day. If that's how many they have, I'm not surprised they hand them out like candy.
DragonOfTartarus t1_j9ug3jp wrote
Reply to comment by Valash83 in Pueblo deputy awarded Purple Heart for injuries suffered during shooting of Richard Ward by Drablit
>Not to take away from those who earned a Purple Heart but the military loves to give them out for about anything.
They had crates full of the things left over after WWII because they were made in expectation of an invasion of the Japanese home islands. Naturally the invasion didn't end up happening, so they were just left with a whole bunch of medals and no one to give them to.
I think they're still using those medals to this day. If that's how many they have, I'm not surprised they hand them out like candy.