{"id":54034,"date":"2014-07-19T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54034"},"modified":"2014-07-19T14:25:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T18:25:55","slug":"purple-hearts-reunited-comes-through-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54034","title":{"rendered":"Purple Hearts Reunited Comes Through Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> T\/Sgt. Emilio Ricci was a medic in the Pacific during World War II. He was assigned to the 43rd Infantry Division.<\/p>\n<p>71 years ago today, he was KIA. His NOK at the time received his Purple Heart.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, T\/Sgt Emilio\u2019s Purple Heart. . . wandered. The medal was rediscovered in a VFW attic in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>A recent vet \u2013 also a Purple Heart recipient \u2013 notified Purple Hearts Reunited. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20140717\/NEWS\/307170049\/WWII-soldier-s-Purple-Heart-returning-family\">Today, the medal was returned to T\/Sgt Ricci\u2019s family.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well done, all. And especially well done, Purple Hearts Reunited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\/Sgt. Emilio Ricci was a medic in the Pacific during World War II. He was assigned to the 43rd Infantry Division. 71 years ago today, he was KIA. His NOK at the time received his Purple Heart. Over the years, T\/Sgt Emilio\u2019s Purple Heart. . . wandered. The medal was rediscovered in a VFW attic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,118,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-veterans-issues","category-we-remember"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-e3w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}