And I opened it up, and there was a this beautiful sketch of my mother that was done during World War II,” said Basham ... and knew he had received the purple heart, but knew little else.

The Purple Heart ... be “the figure of a heart in purple cloth, or silk, edged with narrow lace or binding.” But that award fell out of use after the Revolutionary War through just after ...

Eighty years overdue, centenarian Harold “Bud” Pressel received a Purple Heart during a ceremony in late January at the Dallastown American Legion Hall. About a decade ago, he believed he ...

Pete Celentano was in a foxhole when an artillery shell killed three fellow soldiers and shrapnel tore through his flesh. Michael Vaccaro trained villages to defend themselves against the Viet ...