---
title: "3 Purple Heart Recipients Snapped A Badass Photo On Their First Day In Congress"
description: "On Thursday, Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) shared this fantastic photo of himself with Purple Heart recipients veterans Jim Baird and Dan Crenshaw during their swearing-in ceremony at the start of the 116th Congress"
date: "2019-01-05"
modified: "2019-01-05"
authors:
  - name: "Jared Keller"
    job_title: "Former Managing Editor"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller/"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/purple-heart-recipients-congress-photo/"
categories:
  - "Around the World"
  - "News"
  - "United States"
tags:
  - "Leadership"
---

# 3 Purple Heart Recipients Snapped A Badass Photo On Their First Day In Congress

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/19061507-1.jpg>)

What do you get when you bring three Purple Heart recipients together on the floor of Congress? One awesome f\*cking photo.

On Thursday, Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) shared this fantastic photo of himself with fellow wounded veterans Jim Baird and Dan Crenshaw during their swearing-in at the start of the 116th Congress.

https://twitter.com/RepBrianMast/status/1080920426560270338

Baird, recently elected to represent Indiana's 4th congressional district, lost his left arm while serving in the Army during the Vietnam War, while Crenshaw, a Navy SEAL veteran, lost his right eye to an IED blast in Afghanistan in 2012. Mast himself lost both legs to an Afghan IED in 2010.

"5 eyes. 5 arms. 4 legs. All American," Mast, who has served in Congress since January 2017, [wrote](<https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/01/05/three-purple-heart-recipients-meet-first-day-new-congress.html>) of his fellow Republicans and incoming freshman congressman. "Welcome to Congress, @ElectJimBaird and @DanCrenshawTX."

[According](<https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/01/05/three-purple-heart-recipients-meet-first-day-new-congress.html>) to Military.com, all three of the men are Bronze Star recipients as well.

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Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

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