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 ...

Since February 2022, the popular look back at the city’s history has provided in-depth stories and rarely seen photos from the Tribune archives every Thursday.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Friends and family of a Vietnam veteran symbolically honored him with a Purple Heart medal he never received 55 years ago while recovering in Japan. ... Then, Wray wanted pictures with everybody.

"The Purple Heart, Air Medal, ... The pictures on the pages he shares with us are more than just faces — they're our nation's humble heroes. "I got blown up in 1968," Schroeder said.