It means a lot to my heart,” Jerry Moore said of receiving his late brother’s Purple Heart medal from World War II. “I don’t ...

After 24 years since its disappearance, a family from Central Illinois was reunited with a Purple Heart from World War II.

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 WWII veteran’s sons hope to give his long-lost Purple Heart medal to his grandson, who also served in the Army and had a special bond with him.

Gorski received the Purple Heart. He survived the war and went on to get married and have a family — a daughter and four sons. He died of a heart attack in 1993 at 67 at his home in Westmont.

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 ...

The Purple Heart medal is awarded to U.S. military members who are wounded in service. It is the nation’s oldest military award, introduced by General George Washington in 1782.

A veteran gave his Purple Heart medal to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who avoided the Vietnam War due to a medical exemption for bone spurs. In a video shared on X by the former ...

After a Purple Heart military medal was found in a deceased Iowan's safe-deposit box, State Treasurer Roby Smith arranged to return the unclaimed property to family.