Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs reunited the family of late World War II veteran John L. Moore with his Purple Heart medal during a Tuesday ceremony.

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

It was March 12, 1971, in northern Vietnam’s Quin Tri, when the gun truck, “Proud American,” was struck by two B40 ...