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.
According to the federal government, an estimated 300,000 Vietnam veterans have died from the dangers of Agent Orange. The ...
A veteran gave his Purple Heart medal to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who avoided the Vietnam War due to a ...
Pete Celentano of Jackson and Michael Vaccaro of Middletown braved danger and earned medals in Vietnam, but lost paperwork ...
Jerry Deible of Murrysville can remember standing on the ground at a Vietnam firebase in the early 1970s, staring up at a ...
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 ...
But due to "racial inequalities in the United States at that time," Fletcher never received his Purple Heart, a medal given to military members who are either wounded or killed by the enemy during ...