DATE: December 04, 2006 17:03:09 EST
Document Number: 1094
Purple Heart 1
Purple Heart 1
PHILADELPHIA- George Kuhn speaks about the meaning of the Purple Heart at a ceremony at the Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay facility here Monday, Dec. 4, 2006. In the brief ceremony, a Purple Heart was posthumously awarded to Arthur Campbell, who died aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa when it was torpedoed and sunk during World War I. Kuhn, a member of the Military Order of the Purple Heart's Chapter 116, was one of several Purple Heart recipients in attendance. U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 1st Class Kyle Niemi

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