David Whitten was honored for his service at Maine Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6859, 57 years after he was injured in ...

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Today, we salute Vietnam Veteran Jimmy Ohlheiser. Jimmy was wounded in the Vietnam War in ...

Maine Vietnam Veteran gets long overdue welcome home and purple heart medal ...

A Vietnam veteran in Norman receives his Purple Heart 56 years after being wounded in battle. A Vietnam veteran in Norman received his Purple Heart on Veterans Day, 56 years after being wounded in ...

his Vietnam service medal or with his Purple Heart. They have since corrected this oversight.” The ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Monument in Oklahoma City was an emotional moment, seeing the ...

From small towns to bustling Chicago, the men left for war ... a Purple Heart, which is awarded only to those who are injured or killed in combat. But, as time marched on, their medals ended ...

The military award was returned as part of Illinois' Operation Purple Heart, a mission to return lost medals to war heroes and their families. "Private First Class Tuttle put aside his own wounds ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Dan McDowell served in the Marine Corp in the Vietnam War ... had not received his medals until Friday’s ceremony. One of those is a Purple Heart medal given to ...

In 1968, while serving on tour in Vietnam, a bullet struck U.S. Marine Private First Class James Ohlheiser and left him ...