Westborough – All Purple Heart recipients and their families are invited Sunday, Aug. 7, to a “ribbon cutting” to celebrate Westborough’s new signage identifying it as a Purple Heart Town. The event, in conjunction with Purple Heart Day, will take place at 1 p.m. at the Northborough/Westborough town line eastbound on Route 9.
The Purple Heart is awarded to members of the U.S. armed forces who are wounded by an instrument of war in the hands of the enemy and posthumously to the next of kin in the name of those who are killed in action or die of wounds received in action. It is specifically a combat decoration.