Forging Resilience is a grassroots knife-making program for Purple Heart veterans and wounded officers in Texas. Through physical and mental work, many find peace in an unexpected place: the forge.

In a heartfelt ceremony at the World War II Memorial in Decatur, Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs returned a lost Purple ...

A long-lost Purple Heart medal earned by a KC native is now in safe hands. Olivia Acree shares the story of how it was ...

A Utah World War I veteran received a posthumous Purple Heart on Sunday from Congressman Blake Moore ...

Illinois leaders issued statements late Saturday night following news of the U.S. military’s strike on three sites in Iran, as President Donald Trump and his administration joined Israel’s effort to ...

JONESBURG, Mo. — Tossed inside a scrap car and nearly destroyed, a World War II Purple Heart defied the odds — surviving steel, time and memory to find its way home. At Scrap Mart Metals in ...

181 Iraq War Purple Heart Combat Vet Faces Criminal Charges After Run-In with Off-Duty Redding Police Officer Posted on May 26, 2025 by Shawn Schwaller ...

War medals that go unclaimed in safety deposit boxes end up in the Illinois State Treasurer's vault. So far, Frerichs has returned 13 Purple Hearts since launching Operation Purple Heart in 2021.

Army Cpl. Henry Van Der Noord of Lansing, received a Purple Heart for the combat injury he suffered in May 1945 during a campaign to liberate the Philippines during World War II.

Among Carey's other medals are: Silver Star, Legion of Merit (with gold star), Distinguished Flying Cross, two Bronze Stars (with Combat "V"), 15 Air Medals and Purple Heart, according to his ...

Vietnam veteran presented one of his own Purple Heart medals to a 93-year-old Korean War veteran from Miamisburg who received a Purple Heart coin while his medal is still being processed.

Nearly five years after Hurricanes Laura and Delta devastated Southwest Louisiana, the heavily damaged Purple Heart Recreation Center has never been far from the mind of Lake Charles City Council ...