Purple Heart Day is August 7 ... But that award fell out of use after the Revolutionary War through just after World War I. In 1932, Douglas MacArthur, then the Army chief of staff, reestablished ...

Eighty years overdue, centenarian Harold “Bud” Pressel received a Purple Heart during a ceremony in late January at the Dallastown American Legion Hall. About a decade ago, he believed he ...

George Patton liberated the camp during his push toward Berlin. The ruptured eardrum qualified Pressel for the Purple Heart. But he wasn’t concerned about it then. He was more concerned about ...

For his service, he was awarded the prestigious Purple Heart medal. The fate of that medal, earned by blood and sacrifice, spanned the decades. It was stolen, then discovered in a garbage dump ...