The return of John L. Moore's Purple Heart was presented Wednesday morning at the World War II Memorial in front of the ...

Margarita Manhardt, 88, reunited with loved one George Arthur Cerrito’s Purple Heart that he earned in 1945 after he suffered a traumatic brain injury while fighting in Europe and the military ...

JONESBURG, Mo. — Tossed inside a scrap car and nearly destroyed, a World War II Purple Heart defied the odds — surviving steel, time and memory to find its way home. At Scrap Mart Metals in ...

The Purple Heart medal is awarded to U.S. military members who are wounded in service. It is the nation’s oldest military award, introduced by General George Washington in 1782.

On Thursday, Edward Gorski Jr.’s Purple Heart medal was returned by the Illinois treasurer’s office to the World War II veteran’s grandson, Shawn.

Gorski received the Purple Heart. He survived the war and went on to get married and have a family — a daughter and four sons. He died of a heart attack in 1993 at 67 at his home in Westmont.

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