The Anchorage resident has retired from three careers. He’s been serving the public since Harry Truman was president — and he ...

In a heartfelt ceremony at the World War II Memorial in Decatur, Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs returned a lost Purple ...

A long-lost Purple Heart medal earned by a KC native is now in safe hands. Olivia Acree shares the story of how it was ...

Illinois State Treasurer returns a WWII veteran's lost Purple Heart to his family in a ceremony, marking the 15th such return ...

After 24 years since its disappearance, a family from Central Illinois was reunited with a Purple Heart from World War II.

The return of John L. Moore's Purple Heart was presented Wednesday morning at the World War II Memorial in front of the ...

Fifty-four years later, Maj. Gen. Christopher Beck, Maneuver Support Center of Excellence and Fort Leonard Wood commanding general, presented Allen with the Purple Heart Medal, during a ceremony ...

JONESBURG, Mo. — Tossed inside a scrap car and nearly destroyed, a World War II Purple Heart defied the odds — surviving steel, time and memory to find its way home. At Scrap Mart Metals in ...

Jun. 13—Lee Chisholm Colodzin knew little about her uncle, 2nd Lt. David McMahon until this spring. The World War II fighter pilot died in a plane crash a few years before she was born. "I ...

The Purple Heart recipient served in the Noriega War in 1989. He had been allowed to remain in the U.S. under deferred action.

HONOLULU -- Sae Joon Park had been living in the U.S. since he was 7 years old. The Army veteran was wounded in combat while fighting for the country and was awarded the Purple Heart. But after ...

A 55-year-old veteran of the U.S. Army who was wounded in action, awarded the Purple Heart and honorably discharged self-deported this week after being ordered to by federal immigration officials ...