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Aberdeen proclaims city a Purple Heart City; Military Order of the Purple Heart representative speaks
Summary
The Aberdeen City Council read and adopted a proclamation designating Aberdeen a Purple Heart City. A representative of the Military Order of the Purple Heart spoke about the organization's mission, presented challenge coins to councilmembers and thanked the city for the designation.
The Aberdeen City Council on Thursday adopted a proclamation designating Aberdeen a Purple Heart City and invited a representative of the Military Order of the Purple Heart to the meeting.
Mayor Travis Shunnam read the proclamation, saying it recognizes “the men and women who have served and sacrificed” and noting the Purple Heart is awarded to service members wounded in combat or killed in action. After the reading, Bill Beauflabeau of the Military Order of the Purple Heart’s Brookings chapter addressed the council and attendees.
Beauflabeau said his chapter represents recipients in both North and South Dakota and described the chapter’s outreach and awareness work. “Currently, there’s 206 Purple Heart recipients that are members of our federally organized charter from both North and South Dakota,” Beauflabeau said. He described the Purple Heart Trail, noting the organization started the trail in 1992 and that the effort involves all 50 states. He presented challenge coins to councilmembers as a token of the organization’s appreciation.
Councilmembers approved the proclamation as part of the meeting’s consent calendar. No formal vote tally beyond the standard roll call was recorded in the discussion about the proclamation itself.
The proclamation and the visit from the Military Order of the Purple Heart do not create any city regulatory changes; they are a symbolic recognition and a community gesture honoring veterans who received the Purple Heart.
