JONESBURG, Mo. (KSDK/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - In an extraordinary twist of fate, a World War II Purple Heart medal has been discovered intact amidst the chaos of a Missouri scrap yard, sparking a ...

CHICAGO -- For more than a decade, Harold Walker's Purple Heart Medal was lost. The Vietnam War veteran kept the medal in a safe deposit box - but then his bank closed. And when the new bank couldn't ...

The family of World War II veteran James Bennett of Oak Lawn was reunited with his long-lost Purple Heart medal, found in an unclaimed safe deposit box. Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs started ...

Weeks before Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces in World War II, a young Chicagoan named Stephen Grabowski was stationed in Italy on his way to La Spezia when enemy forces struck his bunker with ...

The family of a World War II veteran was overjoyed to get his lost Purple Heart medal back — just in time for Veteran’s Day.

Treasurer Deborah Goldberg presents a Purple Heart medal that had been in the custody of the Unclaimed Property Division to Thomas Brigham, the grandson of recipient Sgt. Thomas Flynn. (Colin A. Young ...

The state's Unclaimed Property Division recently embarked on a quest to identify the rightful owners or heirs of six Purple Heart medals and other military honors. Sgt. Thomas Flynn was gassed during ...

INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (KSHB) — A long-lost Purple Heart medal that represents the life of a Kansas City World War II pilot is now in safe hands, thanks to a stranger who spotted it for sale at an ...

LEBANON COUNTY, Pa. — In observance of Purple Heart Day, Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity returned a Purple Heart Medal to the son of a late Vietnam War Veteran. Joined by Senator Chris Gebhard (R ...

MARION, Ill. (KFVS) - The grand-niece of a World War II veteran was presented with his Purple Heart and other military medals during a ceremony in southern Illinois on Thursday, August 21. According ...

Today is Purple Heart Appreciation Day. While the Medal of Honor is still the highest military decoration, the Purple Heart is the oldest. It began as the Badge of Military Merit ... an extraordinary ...