Friends and family of a Vietnam veteran symbolically honored him with a Purple Heart medal he never received 55 years ago while recovering in Japan. Many know Lester F. Wray III as “Ripper” Wray or ...

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

He had been flown from Vietnam to Oahu and was in a coma. Oliveira never got his Purple Heart medal or a ceremony; he was busy getting irrigation and blood transfusions in the hospital.

A veteran gave his Purple Heart medal to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who avoided the Vietnam War due to a ...

More than 50 years after being injured in the Vietnam War, a Larimer County veteran received one of the armed service's most distinguished medals -- the Purple Heart. Rep. Joe Neguse, the U.S ...

A Vietnam combat veteran who served three tours was given a final salute after lunge disease from Agent Orange took his life at age 78. FOX 10's Kenzie Beach has more.

The Department of Defense (DoD) on Monday quietly restored a web page it had removed about Army Maj. Gen. Charles Rogers, a ...

Matteo is president of the Purple Heart Society who received six Purple Heart medals from action with the Marines in Vietnam. The Purple Heart Medal is awarded to members of the U.S. Armed ...

Both men earned medals for their service in the Vietnam War, but never received ... His injuries in combat made him eligible to receive a Purple Heart medal. He never got it.