Korea veteran’s Purple Heart turns up in thrift store, finds its way home
March 06, 2021 Brian Niemietz - New York Daily News
A Purple Heart awarded to a veteran of the Korean War turned-up in a Phoenix thrift store, where shop volunteer Teresa Ferrin, whose father also fought in that war, made it her mission to return it to its rightful owner.
CNN reports that Ferrin isn’t sure how the Purple Heart wound-up at the Christian Family thrift store, but it was emblazoned with the name Erik Karl Blauberg — the soldier who’d earned it.
Ferrin got online and found Blauberg had died in 1988, then located his grave at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona. From there, she was directed to a crematorium that had reportedly seen to the war hero’s remains.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/03/korea-veterans-purple-heart-turns-up-in-thrift-store-finds-its-way-home/
