and a North Carolina veteran will receive a medal he earned decades ago. This weekend, a 78-year-old Chatham County Army veteran who earned a Bronze Star and Purple Heart in Vietnam is getting a ...

(WLUK) -- For more than 50 years, a Waupaca County veteran has received disability benefits following his service in Vietnam. But his family says he has yet to receive the Purple Heart.

LaFountain, a Vietnam veter ... orga nizations. The Purple Heart medal is awarded to members of the military services wounded in combat. Those killed in action also receive the medal.

Lee Chisholm Colodzin knew little about her uncle, 2nd Lt. David McMahon until this spring. The World War II fighter pilot died in a plane crash a few years before she was born. "I learned more about ...

Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs' Operation Purple Heart reunited a lost Purple Heart with the family of WWII veteran Edward Gorski Jr. during a ceremony in Geneva. Gorski, wounded in the Battle of ...

Herman Schroeder is a Vietnam Marine Corps veteran who served for nearly 30 years and retired as a master sergeant. He's also a recipient of the Purple Heart. 'This is the greatest country in the ...

Richard Gauthier was 19 years old when he was sent to Vietnam to serve in the army. After he was injured by fragments of a rocket launcher, he received a Purple Heart award. Now Gauthier is 79, he's a ...

(Sgt. 1st Class Sebastian Rothwyn/Army) The Army has awarded 10 New York Army National Guard soldiers the Purple Heart for injuries they sustained in a January 2024 drone attack while they were ...

Justin Oaks, a former military police officer and current Greenville, Pennsylvania resident, was presented the Purple Heart nearly 20 ... than if you were to receive it in Iraq in front of your ...

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Van Der Noord survived — as did three brothers who also served their country in the war — and earned a Purple Heart for the combat injury he suffered in May 1945. This month, as Memorial Day ...