Purple Hearts Reunited Does Good – Again
This time, the medal involved is a Purple Heart awarded posthumously to a US soldier killed in Vietnam in 1966 during an ambush. The linked story gives the details.
The lady was just a toddler at the time of her father’s demise. Her mom initially received her father’s Purple Heart – but gave it to her when she turned 18.
Years later it disappeared. Soon she’ll have it back – courtesy of Purple Hearts Reunited.
Well done, Zachariah Fike and Purple Hearts Reunited. Damn well done.
If you have some spare dollars – IMO you could do far worse than to send a few of them Purple Hearts Reunited’s way.
Category: Feel Good Stories, We Remember
Bravo Zulu to Purple Hearts Reunited! Jonn, thanks and yes, I will give them my monetary support.
Jonn?
Hondo…DAMN, I apologize. I’ve done that twice now. Assuming. And it always works out the same way, I’m an ASS! Sorry brother and thank YOU for the thread.
(chuckling) Just pulling your chain, amigo. We all miss the obvious from time to time.
Every time I read one of these returned Purple Heart stories. It leaves me with so many emotions. Especially, if it’s from Vietnam.
I look at the photo of this young trooper. Had he lived, he probably would be about my age. He served with the 1st Cav. I served with the 1st Cav. He was probably a 11B, I was a 11B.
I think back to that time in my life, I was just a dumb kid who thought I was a grownup. Not so much.
I remember when my older brother came back from Vietnam. My mother cried.
I remember when I came back from Vietnam. My mother cried.
I’ve never understood how or why some got to come home alive some did not.
I just sit here and stare at the photo of that young man and just cry!
Welcome home my friend…
Fear not of your loss, embrace that which you have today and delve into the memories at your leisure. The dead stay alive through our memories of them. The good of their lives is carried by you.
Godspeed to all that have pased long before their time…
This year at the PJ reunion in Albuquerque there was an Air Force Cross that someone found at a swap meet or pawn shop, cannot remember which, that belonged to Jason Cunningham. It had his name on the back.
It was recovered and returned to his family.