Look it up. The purple heart was awarded for injury recieved in the line of duty. Considering that Buddy will have problems for the rest of his life, his career is shortened because of the injury and he saved another person from recieving serious injury or possibly fatal injuries from the accident, which was on an expressway ramp in the junction I for one think he deserves at least the awards he recieved, if not thanks from all of us in uniform for what he did. Just one persons opinion.