FORT WORTH — A man who gave his life in service of his country during World War II finally received the recognition he deserved on Tuesday. His surviving family accepted the Prisoner of War and ...
Knox and the other defenders of Wake Island were among those given World War II veteran status in 1981 ... Shaffer was presented with a Purple Heart and a Prisoner of War Medal for his great ...
His surviving family accepted the Prisoner of War and Purple Heart medals on his behalf during a ceremony at the Navy Reserve Readiness and Mobilization Fort Worth Command.
Calvin Anthony was a decorated U.S. Army sniper, having completed more than 30 missions in the Korean War before an injury ... But his favorite medal is the Purple Heart he received for his ...
He was a soldier, reporter, championship boxer, firefighter, science teacher, judo instructor, wrestling coach, American Legion member, and Military Order of the Purple Heart organizer.
An undercover sting operation at a senior living home in Everett, Massachusetts, led to an arrest after a 77-year-old Vietnam war veteran was scammed out of $20,000. Purple Heart recipient Charles ...
Murray, a distinguished veteran of both World War II and the Korean War, was celebrated ... and a profound sense of duty. He earned a Purple Heart for the injuries he sustained during World ...
Purple Heart recipient (posthumous) Pvt. John Greschiak was 19 when he was killed during a rescue mission conducted outside Niedersgegan, Germany. Greschiak’s niece, Donna Cramer of Albany ...
EVERETT - A 77-year-old Vietnam War Veteran from Everett is speaking ... I won and they lost," Fagone said. Now Fagone, a Purple Heart veteran, has an important message to share to others who ...
More than 70 years later, he still has not been able to keep his word. They were separated just before the Korean War broke out in 1950, and Mr Kim has been left stranded in South Korea ever since.
The family of a D-Day Veteran is honoring his service nearly 30 years after he died in 1995. William Legus was born in Farmville and earned multiple honors in World War II his family says they ...
On Tuesday, 80 years after his death in a prisoner of war camp, the U.S. Navy posthumously awarded Knox a Purple Heart and a Prisoner ... Knox, a World War I Army veteran who later worked as ...