Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In the final push to defeat Nazi Germany during World War II, Edward Gorski Jr. was trying to shield himself inside a foxhole when the 19-year-old Chicagoan ...

Attorney general appeals ruling in St. Joseph County immigration case Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has officially filed an appeal in his lawsuit against St. Joseph County Sheriff Bill ...

FORT CARSON — The Purple Heart recognizes soldiers who have been wounded in combat. Tuesday, one soldier at Fort Carson received the honor after suffering a traumatic brain injury in Afghanistan in ...

Sarah Date, niece of Kazuyoshi “Tommy” Inouye, received the Purple Heart medal intended for Inouye from Norman Hashisaka on May 15 at the Regency at Puakea. Sarah Date, niece of Kazuyoshi Inouye, ...

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — President Donald Trump paid a holiday visit Thursday to wounded service members at Walter Reed National Medical Center, hailing them as "some of the bravest people anywhere in the ...

GUILFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — This Memorial Day weekend, we honor and remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our country. On Friday, a Purple Heart medal was presented to the family of a ...

(From left) Col. Gregory Holmes, commander of the U.S. Army Security Assistance Management Organization (SATMO), had the honor of presenting the Purple Heart to CW4 Joshua Price May 17, 2024. Price ...

DIGHTON — It only took 91 years for Peter Joseph Hebert to be awarded his Purple Heart. The Taunton native, who died in 1976 at age 81, fought in World War I as part of the U.S. Army’s 6th Engineers ...

Senior noncommissioned officers at higher levels have demanding jobs. From overseeing training for thousands of Soldiers to advising senior commanders, it is easy to see how they might seem ...

A soldier recovering from two lower leg amputations at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston received two Purple Hearts in an unusual ceremony Monday. “We are a better Army today because of what you ...

It was May 2, 1945, days after Adolf Hitler’s suicide and days before the end of the war in Europe. The shrapnel struck Gorski in the face, and he nearly lost an eye, but he survived to share some ...

A Purple Heart has no engravings that would identify the recipient or the conflict in which it was awarded. And neither the Armed Forces nor the federal government maintains a comprehensive list. The ...