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This story first appeared in the Newnan Times-Herald about a Purple Heart medal found in a local scrapyard. A local historian tracked the name on the medal to David T. McMahon, a World War II pilot ...
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Purple Heart mystery deepens
We have an update on that mysterious Purple Heart medal discovered in a Newnan junkyard 80 years after the soldier’s death following World War II.
McMahon's Purple Heart was recently saved from a Georgia scrapyard. “A gentlemen that works at the scrapyard, junk yard, he ran across a Purple Heart in a World War 2 case,” local history buff Steve ...
But over 70 years later, the 96-year-old is still waiting for the U.S. Army to recognize his injury and to award him a Purple Heart medal, which honors service members wounded or killed in combat.
She said that medals, like justice ... Rodriguez also gave the new Purple Heart recipient a pair of presidential cufflinks he got the day before, at the White House. Donald’s uncles, Bill ...
The medal is one step closer to being returned to family members in California. It caps a two-month search for the next of kin of a pilot who died 80 years ago. SEE ALSO: Lost Purple Heart found ...
All Gary Hall Jr. had time to grab as the January fires bore down on his home were his dog and his insulin. Among his losses: ...
Legendary country singer George Strait recently gifted a U.S. veteran and Purple Heart recipient a new home during a concert in Pittsburgh.
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A Purple Heart veteran's mission after war
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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 ...