How an Errant YouTube Click Led to a Marine Receiving A Purple Heart After 52 Years

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How an Errant YouTube Click Led to a Marine Receiving A Purple Heart After 52 Years
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By James R. Webb | June 25, 2021

A US Marine who was wounded in Vietnam has finally received his Purple Heart after a 52-year wait.

Bill Klobas was presented the medal by the Military Order of the Purple Heart on June 18. If Klobas hadn’t made an errant click on YouTube, the 71-year-old might never have received the medal.

By April 26, 1969, Klobas had been in Vietnam for 10 months. On that day, he and other Marines of 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, were weeks into Operation Oklahoma Hills, a large-scale search-and-destroy mission against North Vietnamese soldiers hiding in the foothills outside Da Nang, Vietnam. As Klobas and his platoon emerged from the jungle into open terrain, they found themselves under heavy fire and vulnerable in the open.

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[Smokin Joe]

I thought you only got awarded the Purple Heart for enemy fire, not blue on blue.

Either way, I won't argue that the award should not be made, just trying to clarify.

(One of my father's Purple hearts was taken back because the tank round that wiped out most of his squad and wounded the rest in Korea came from an American tank.)