This is a stunning Slimline pen made from Purpleheart-Peltogyne venosa which is found Central and South America (from Mexico down to southern Brazil) that is just beauitiful and has a color like no other.
 
The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those wounded or killed while serving, on or after April 5, 1917, with the U.S. military.