It means a lot to my heart,” Jerry Moore said of receiving his late brother’s Purple Heart medal from World War II. “I don’t ...

WWII veteran’s Purple Heart saved from scrapyard WXMI via CNN Newsource David T. McMahon's Purple Heart was recently saved from a Georgia scrapyard.

McMahon's Purple Heart was recently saved from a Georgia scrapyard. “A gentlemen that works at the scrapyard, junk yard, he ran across a Purple Heart in a World War 2 case,” local history buff ...

After a Grand Rapids World War II veteran’s medal was found in a Georgia junk heap, a local historian dug up everything he could to return it to his last surviving relatives.

He had put the Purple Heart in a bank deposit box for safekeeping, last seeing it circa 1995-2000. Reed said he was honored when Frerichs’ staff came to Georgia to return his grandfather’s medal.

A 96-year-old Korean War veteran from Minnesota has been waiting for 70 years for a Purple Heart medal. The Army keeps turning him down.

The treasurer launched a special effort, “Operation Purple Heart,” in late 2021 to raise awareness about unclaimed medals.

A lost Purple Heart belonged to Edward Gorski, a soldier who took shrapnel to the face in the final days of World War II.

A WWII veteran’s sons hope to give his long-lost Purple Heart medal to his grandson, who also served in the Army and had a special bond with him.