"Steven P. McNicoll"

Sorry, you can only get one Purple Heart.

Plenty have several.

Have you ever seen more than one? The public thinks of the Purple Heart as the
medal, which you can get one of (well, you can buy more). After that,
additional awards can be added in the form of embellishments if the recipient
chooses to stick them on. I have one in the drawer here. It is unadorned but
represents a knifing
while chasing Pancho Villa, a bayonette wound from the scond batle of the Marne
and a great toe shot off in the Chateu Therry (spelling?) campaign, among
ohers. No it wasn't me. They may have still been using sails when I joined the
Navy, but I never knew Pershing.

The requirements for the award were ammended sometime after WWI but I don't
recall when, just that I have read them and that a nick in the skin that may
need a bandaid qualifies if the circumstances are right.

-- Charlie Springer