Lester Wray honored with symbolic Purple Heart
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 ...
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Highest-Ranking Black Medal of Honor Recipient Erased in Pentagon DEI Purge
The latest casualty in the Department of Defense's sweep of all things related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is ...
Former WMass Marine pleads guilty to filing false Purple Heart application, disability claim
SPRINGFIELD — A former Marine from Western Massachusetts pleaded guilty this week to fraudulently filing for a Purple Heart ...
American Press3d
Heavily damaged Purple Heart Recreation Center to be rebuilt in new location
Nearly five years after Hurricanes Laura and Delta devastated Southwest Louisiana, the heavily damaged Purple Heart ...
Pentagon quietly restores web page on Black Medal of Honor recipient after backlash over ‘DEI’ label
The Department of Defense (DoD) on Monday quietly restored a web page it had removed about Army Maj. Gen. Charles Rogers, a ...
Niagara Gazette8d
Local Purple Heart recipients invited to be included in Niagara County's 'Book of Honor'
Planning is underway for this year’s Purple Heart Celebration that will see more names added to Niagara County’s Purple Heart ...
‘The air was on fire’ — Army captain recalls 2012 battle in Afghanistan
Army Capt. James McDaniel was diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury by doctors with the Department of Veterans Affairs after ...
Daily Hampshire Gazette11d
Shelburne Falls veteran pleads guilty to stealing benefits, lying about service
A U.S. Marine veteran pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing benefit payments from the Department of Veterans Affairs and ...