an award like the US Purple Heart would blur that distinction and would give an incentive to those who self-injure themselves to avoid front-line service - why would the UK wish to copy that?
What utter and complete Horse !!!!!
That has got to be the most stupid, insulting, and bogus comment I have yet read here.....and that takes some doing!
Please do explain how the American Purple Heart Award can do that....please do tell us.
You made the statement.....now back it up with some facts.
Unless you do....I will just have to accept the fact that you are witless to the extreme.
Self Inflicted Wounds don't get Purple Hearts.....they do get Court Martials.
Tanker....that is not mine. That is just a photo I pulled off the web.
I was wounded in June '70....a PH was pinned to my pillow while I was in the warm embrace of Madam Demerol and it was put into my Army issue Personal Effects bag. The next day I awoke from another Liasion with Miss Demerol to find another PH pinned to the bed and freaked out....thinking I had been wounded a second time. The explanation was in the hustle/bustle of the Evac Hospital....someone had failed to replace the name card on the end of the bed and a visiting 1st Cav General had mistaken me for a Cav Trooper whose bed I had been placed in as he was sleeping elsewhere. That bag got lost en-route to Japan where I was sent for treatment of my burns. The PH I have now arrived last year when I did the "One Time Replacement" issue of my Awards and Decorations.