updated Tue. January 3, 2023
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Houston Chronicle
February 17, 2018
The 26-year-old Purple Heart veteran pulled up to a two-story red brick house on a corner lot landscaped with young oak trees and blooming flowers. ... It didn't seem to matter that he had served in the military, that his injury had taken away the Army career he dreamed of and the athletic lifestyle heÃâà...
Alexandria Town Talk
February 14, 2018
... Harris' death, but Alexandria Police Department investigators weren't sure when his body was found near the Purple Heart Memorial Bridge on Feb. ... "We will never know what those causes were, but I am grateful knowing that he was not taken away from us under suspicious circumstances," MichaelÃâà...
Press of Atlantic City
February 9, 2018
Purple Heart recipient and veterans advocate Marco Polo Smigliani, of Egg Harbor Township, heard of April through friends. “They told me there was this crazy ... “If I were to be taken away tomorrow, I know I have done a good job and raised a good daughter,” she said. Did she have a premonition thatÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 27, 2017
Before Gaye Sundberg died in 2014, she dreamed that one day her husband, World War II veteran Wayne Sundberg, would receive the Purple Heart medal he had clearly earned. On Wednesday, on their 60th wedding anniversary, Sundberg, now 93, did just that. In 1944, Staff Sgt. Sundberg, a B-26 turretÃâà...
The Daily Courier
December 15, 2017
He was part of the 5th Marine Division, fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima and received a Purple Heart as well as a Congressional Silver Medal. Funeral plans were pending and a list of Draper's survivors wasn't immediately available Thursday. Draper's death came nine days after another Navajo Code Talker,Ãâà...
Albany Times Union
November 28, 2017
"That was the right decision to make. To do what he did to another service members, someone on his own team is a disgrace." Prasenski, who did not return a call Tuesday about the matter, received a Purple Heart for an injury he suffered in Iraq in June 2006. When he was sent back to Iraq in December ofÃâà...
Topeka Capital Journal
September 20, 2017
“They're all gone.” Showing black-and-white photos he took with a 620 Kodak Brownie camera on a screen, Roker recalled 204 days of combat, including 144 days straight without a break. He recounted the injury he sustained in France that left shrapnel in his leg and earned him a Purple Heart, and he toldÃâà...
CNN
July 26, 2017
Then named Chris Beck, she deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa and earned a Bronze Star and Purple Heart. She came ... And with that one tweet, he's taken away my liberty and the liberty of a lot of other people. He's taken away from thousands and thousands of people the right to personal liberty.
Q13 FOX
June 1, 2017
SEATTLE (AP) — A former soldier who lied his way to a Purple Heart and hundreds of thousands of dollars in government benefits has been sentenced to three years in prison. U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle issued the sentence Thursday in Tacoma, Washington, to Darryl Wright. Authorities say WrightÃâà...
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