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A wounded soldier displays his autographed Purple Heart after being awarded the medal by Vice President Dick Cheney at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, October 22, 2003. Initially created as the Badge of Military Merit by General George Washington, the Purple Heart is the oldest military decoration in the world in present use and the first American award made available to the common soldier.


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