DECORATED WITH VALOR—Thousand Oaks resident Marine Bill Hutton, national junior Vice Cmdr. of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, right, welcomes veterans and Purple Heart recipient Mike Sweeney, left, and Vietnam veteran Norman Campbell, a Thousand Oaks resident, center, during the Veterans Day service at Conejo Creek Park North in Thousand Oaks yesterday. More than 1.6 million Purple Heart medals have been awarded to date.