In a gesture of gratitude, Scrap Mart flew the family to San Diego for their national convention to return the medal.

It should’ve been lost forever — crushed in a car shredder. But this World War II Purple Heart refused to be forgotten.

On June 23, 2025, the story of a decorated military veteran allegedly forced by an ultimatum from Immigration and Customs ...

A U.S. Army honor guard holds a tray with three Purple Heart medals during a Purple Heart ceremony on June 9, 2015 at George Washington’s Mount Vernon (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) ...

“People were coming up to us and wanting to meet us and take pictures of the medal. … For them to make this big deal out of it, it was really cool." Now, the Purple Heart is finally back where ...

Sae Joon Park, 55, who’s lived in the U.S. since age 7, was reportedly deported Monday to South Korea over a 2009 drug ...

Photos of Hawaii men posthumously awarded Purple Heart medals sit on a table at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Friday, May 10, 2024. The families of five Hawaii men who served in a unit of Japanese ...

The Connecticut Military Order of the Purple Heart designated Norwalk a Purple Heart City on August 7, 2020. A new Purple Heart Memorial was dedicated on December 10, 2022, in Veterans Park. The ...

The Purple Heart medal awarded to U.S. Marine Cpl. Delbert ... Peckham’s cousin in Urbana surprised her with some of her father’s old military photos and records that she didn’t know ...

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