SPRINGFIELD — A former Marine from Western Massachusetts pleaded guilty this week to fraudulently filing for a Purple Heart ...

In the final push to defeat Nazi Germany during World War II, Edward Gorski Jr. was trying to shield himself inside a foxhole when the 19-year-old Chicagoan was struck by enemy fire. Gorski, a ...

Pete Celentano of Jackson and Michael Vaccaro of Middletown braved danger and earned medals in Vietnam, but lost paperwork ...

Both the Medal of Honor and the Purple Heart came from the Badge of Military Merit. It was the first award meant for enlisted troops. Before this, the only way to recognize heroism by an enlisted ...

Army Capt. James McDaniel was diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury by doctors with the Department of Veterans Affairs after ...

A Fort Carson soldier has been recognized for his heroic actions during an attack in Afghanistan in 2012. Captain James ...

Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Samuel B. Savilla III received both the KCSO Deputy of the Year award and the department’s first ever Purple Heart Medal Thursday night, Feb. 20, 2025.

His injuries in combat made him eligible to receive a Purple Heart medal. He never got it. Michael Vaccaro knows the feeling. He spent most of 1972 on a dangerous assignment, training villages ...

The requirements for earning the badge were a lot different from today’s Purple Heart. Soldiers had to do something unusually heroic or perform some act that was essential to the success of the ...

Pete Celentano was in a foxhole when an artillery shell killed three fellow soldiers and shrapnel tore through his flesh. Michael Vaccaro trained villages to defend themselves against the Viet ...