Numbers

And behind each a face, and a life, and faces and lives around them.

The numbers of faces and lives awarded a Purple Heart because of injury or death in battle:


World War I: 320,518

World War II: 1,076,245

Korean War: 118,650

Vietnam War: 351,794

Persian Gulf War: 607

Afghanistan War: 7,027 (as of 5 June 2010)

Iraq War: 35,321 (as of 5 June 2010)
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