Oliveira, who hailed from Nahiku, was injured in Vietnam when he was hit by rocket-propelled grenade round fragments on May 13, 1969. At first, the family thought he had died. His wife, Hazel, and ...

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 ...

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 ...