National Purple Heart Day 5k run

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  • By Yasuo Osakabe
  • 374th Airlift Wing public affairs

Team Yokota hosts the National Purple Heart Day 5k run at Yokota Air Base, Japan, Aug. 7, 2020.

National Purple Heart Day is Aug. 7. The military order of the Purple Heart, the oldest American military decoration for military merit, is awarded to members of the armed forces of the U.S. who have been killed or wounded in action by an instrument of war in the hands of the enemy and posthumously to the next of kin in the name of those who are killed in action or die of wounds received in action.