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 ...

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

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

WWII Veteran Receives Long Overdue Purple Heart Medal For aging WWII veterans, ... MENDOZA: He only, you know, told us, yeah, I was a paratrooper. He always wore the 82nd Airborne hat, ...

Jerry and Mal Deener had always wondered what their dad Harry did in the Army during World War II. ... A WWII veteran’s Purple Heart was returned to his sons 35 years after his death ...

“It was an honor and privilege to pin a long overdue Purple Heart on a great Soldier and member of the Greatest Generation, Mr. Ozzie Fletcher,” Gen. James C. McConville, chief of staff of the ...

A 92-year-old North Carolina man has finally received the Purple Heart he earned more than 70 years ago while fighting in Belgium during World War II.

An associate sorting donations at a Goodwill in Tucson, Arizona, came across a Purple Heart medal in a box of housewares. Now Goodwill is looking for the recipient’s family to reunite them with ...

World War II solder Edward J. Ryan's Purple Heart was lost for 76 years until this week when it was reunited with his nephew. Cpl. Edward J. Ryan was just 22 when he was killed in 1945.

Former Army Private Osceola "Ozzie" Fletcher received a Purple Heart last week at age 99 after more than eight decades of unrecognized service in the Battle of Normandy.

This heart found its way back home. A New Jersey woman whose uncle bravely fought in World War II got her late relative’s long-lost Purple Heart back after the award was spotted at a Texas flea ...

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