Oliver Stone – Purple Heart Or Academy Award, Have Your Pick!
Oliver Stone, the award-winning director, and scriptwriter is not just an Army veteran, but also the recipient of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. His services during the Vietnam War are still spoken about in military circles.
After dropping out of university, he went on to work on his writing and on a book which went unpublished. It was on being unable to find a publisher that he joined the US Army in 1967. He requested combat duty, which he claimed was “rite of passage” for “a young man” like himself.