In a gesture of gratitude, Scrap Mart flew the family to San Diego for their national convention to return the medal.

A Purple Heart medal found in a Georgia junkyard is returned to a family member of the World War II veteran who earned the ...

It should’ve been lost forever — crushed in a car shredder. But this World War II Purple Heart refused to be forgotten.

The mystery of how a Purple Heart medal ended up in a Georgia scrapyard when the recipient's family in Michigan received it 80 years ago is a step closer to being solved. Local VFW members have ...

Jacob Sheline is the CSX worker who located the Purple Heart on the train tracks. However, she has permission to honor all of the CSX workers that helped in finding the medal, as well as PFC Lawrence.

Army Specialist Kenneth Wiest, who died in Illinois in 1998, was awarded the Purple Heart for his time in Vietnam. Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs returned the medal to Wiest's family ...