MARION, Ill. (KFVS) - The grand-niece of a World War II veteran was presented with his Purple Heart and other military medals during a ceremony in southern Illinois on Thursday, August 21. According ...

The medal, which honors extraordinary service and sacrifice on the battlefield, unlocks medical and financial benefits for ...

Weeks before Germany surrendered to the Allied Forces in World War II, a young Chicagoan named Stephen Grabowski was stationed in Italy on his way to La Spezia when enemy forces struck his bunker with ...

OAK LAWN, Ill., Nov. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On the day before Veterans Day, Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs returned a lost Purple Heart medal to the niece of a World War II veteran who ...

Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs reunited a Purple Heart with the family of the veteran who earned it, after it came into the State Treasury's possession The medal was given to Army Rifleman ...

The family of a World War II veteran was overjoyed to get his lost Purple Heart medal back — just in time for Veteran’s Day. Army Rifleman James R. Bennett, who was wounded twice in 1944 while serving ...

Treasurer Deborah Goldberg presents a Purple Heart medal that had been in the custody of the Unclaimed Property Division to Thomas Brigham, the grandson of recipient Sgt. Thomas Flynn. (Colin A. Young ...

In observance of Purple Heart Day, Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity returned a Purple Heart Medal to the son of a late Vietnam War Veteran. Joined by Senator Chris Gebhard (R-48) and ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – Long thought to have been stolen, the Purple Heart medal that Worcester native Thomas Flynn was awarded for his World War I service was returned to his family at the State House on ...

MARION, Ill. (WSIL)-- A big honor for the local Marion family of a late World War II veteran. Through Operation Purple Heart, Chrystal Cantrell was reunited with her great uncle’s long-missing Purple ...

MARION, Ill. – An Illinois family has been reunited with a deceased World War II veterans military honors that had been missing for several years. In a special ceremony last week at VFW Post 1301 in ...