Pfc. Justin Pinna, 19 (left) and Spc. Jordan Brown, 22, listen as Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba USA (Ret.) delivers opening remarks during a ceremony to award the Purple Heart to 20 soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., June 29. Walter Reed held its first ceremony for Purple Hearts awarded in connection with Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom in February 2005. Since then, approximately a dozen such ceremonies have been held there.