Re: The nukings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:28:14 -0400, waltbj01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

ordered more than 370,000 Purple
Hearts in preparation for the estimated casualties (WIA/KIA). FWIW
these medals, today, are still being issued from that supply

There have in fact been some Purple Hearts manufactured since 1945,
but I believe that this was because some warehoused copies went
missing in the bureaucracy. It is indeed true that the 1945 medals are
still being issued today.


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