The National Purple Heart Honor Mission is excited to announce that we will be hosting a special virtual event with Purple Heart recipient and author of Blood, Sweat and Honor: Memoirs of a "Walking Dead Marine" in Vietnam, Derl Horn, on Tuesday, April 27 at 7:00pm EST.
On July 2, 1967, Derl Horn and members of Bravo Company walked into a U-shaped ambush just north of the DMZ. The company of Marines showed tremendous courage against unbeatable odds as they spent hours fighting for their own lives and the lives of their fellow Marines. They were trapped and pinned down in what looked to be a hopeless and helpless situation, but they refused to give up. For all involved, it would be a day that changed their lives forever.
U.S. Marine veteran and Purple Heart recipient Derl Horn will share an inspiring, powerful and true story of being drafted into the Marine Corps during the heights of the Vietnam War, and how it shaped the projection of his life in the years after his service.
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