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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on September 20, 2020, 10:18:30 am
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After 76 Years, a D-Day Hero's Long-Lost Purple Heart Returns to His Family
19 Sep 2020
Bangor Daily News, Maine | By Troy R. Bennett
PORTLAND, Maine -- There are plenty of battlefield relics inside the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6859 on Forest Avenue. In the lounge, behind a couple tables, a lighted display case shows off combat-captured bayonets. A Nazi flag and a Japanese sword sit silent, behind glass, in a trophy case near the seldom-used front door. Someone recently donated a foot-thick scrapbook with World War II-era newspaper clippings pasted, edge-to-edge, on both sides of each yellowed page.
Looking through some of these wartime artifacts in 2014, Post Commander Joel Demers stumbled on a mystery that would take six years to unravel. In seeing it through, Demers reunited a long-lost Purple Heart with a family that had spent decades searching for the medal. He also helped that family honor and remember a man they knew was a hero -- and still grieved for -- but never knew.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/09/19/after-76-years-d-day-heros-long-lost-purple-heart-returns-his-family.html (https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/09/19/after-76-years-d-day-heros-long-lost-purple-heart-returns-his-family.html)
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Good story, thanks!
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Good story, thanks!
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