screenwriter and TV host Robert B. Sherman, songwriter Eric Shinseki, former Army Chief of Staff and secretary of the Veterans Administration Randy Shughart former Delta Force sniper and Medal of Honor recipient. Warren Spahn, MLB player Jan Scruggs, Vietnam War veteran, founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, which built the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Robert Stethem, killed during TWA Flight 847 hijacking, namesake of USS Stethem James Stockdale, Navy vice admiral, POW and Medal of Honor recipient Oliver Stone, Vietnam veteran and film director Spencer Stone, Air Force staff sergeant, author and actor, who stopped terrorist attack on train to Paris, France William Stuart-Houston, nephew of Adolf Hitler Sergeant Stubby, Army K9 WWI, 2 awards Bruce Sundlun, former governor of Rhode Island. William D. Swenson, Medal of Honor Pat Tillman, Army Rangers, NFL player Lauri Törni, Finnish soldier of three armies Matt Urban, Army, 7 awards John Paul Vann, Army, State Department official in Vietnam Jay R. Vargas, Marine Corps, 5 awards Alexander Vindman, Director for European Affairs for the United States National Security Council Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author, for injuries due to frost-bite. Lewis William Walt, Marine Corps general, 2 awards Jim Webb, Marine Corps, former Secretary of the Navy, U.S. Senator from Virginia, author and Emmy Award-winning journalist, 2 awards Joshua Wheeler, Army master sergeant, Delta Force member KIA in Iraq Louis Wilson, Commandant of the Marine Corps and Medal of Honor recipient Richard Winters, Army major, paratrooper and subject of Band of Brothers Chuck Yeager, Army Air Forces and Air Force brigadier general Gordon Yntema, Medal of Honor recipient Louis Zamperini, U.S. Olympian Tyler Ziegel, Marine Corps sergeant Larry Cullen, Marine Corps captain and brother of Peter Cullen Most Purple Heart awards Ten Purple Hearts: Charles D. Barger, U.S. Army, Medal of Honor: World War I (10) William G."Bill" White, U.S. Army: World War II (9), Korean War (1) Curry T. Haynes, U.S. Army: Vietnam War (10) Nine Purple Hearts: Albert L. Ireland, U.S. Marine Corps: World War II (5), Korean War (4) Eight Purple Hearts: Robert T. Frederick, U.S. Army: World War II (8) David H. Hackworth, U.S. Army: Korean War (3), Vietnam War (5) Joe Hooper, U.S. Army, Medal of Honor: Vietnam War (8) Robert L. Howard, U.S. Army, Medal of Honor: Vietnam War (8) William Waugh, U.S. Army: Vietnam War (8) See also DEA Purple Heart Award Gold Star Lapel Button