LIVE: JSO to award Purple Heart medal to officer shot in line of duty in March 2023
Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters will host the departmentโs monthly award ceremony Thursday morning to congratulate several of its members for their outstanding work.
โI didnโt know if weโd be here todayโ: JSO awards Purple Heart to officer shot in line of duty in 2023
Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters will host the departmentโs monthly award ceremony Thursday morning to congratulate several of its members for their outstanding work.
WWII soldiers posthumously receive Purple Heart medals 79 years after fatal plane crash
The families of five Hawaii men who served in a unit of Japanese-language linguists during World War II have received posthumous Purple Heart medals on behalf of their loved ones nearly eight decades after the soldiers died in a plane crash in the final days of the conflict.
Purple Heart recipients recognized at Jacksonvilleโs Veterans Memorial Wall
Wounded heroes of the U.S. Armed Forces were recognized Friday evening by Jacksonvilleโs Military Affairs and Veterans Department and the Military Order of the Purple Heart Chapter 524.
Arizona Goodwill store finds WWII sailor's Purple Heart
An associate sorting donations at a Goodwill in Tuscon, Arizona, came across a Purple Heart medal in a box of housewares. (CNN) - An associate sorting donations at a Goodwill in Tuscon, Arizona, came across a Purple Heart medal in a box of housewares. He was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously. The Purple Heart is given to US service members who are wounded or killed in combat. In 2016, another Purple Heart was accidentally donated to a Goodwill in Arizona and with the help of social media it was reunited with the service member's family in Missouri.