The changing of Fort Johnson's name back to Fort Polk -- but a different Polk from the Confederate one it was named for ...

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

The Atlanta Braves gave its "Hometown Hero" award to Chuck Goggin, a onetime Brave who earned a Bronze Star and Purple Heart with the U.S. Marines during the Vietnam War ...

The Rev. Francis A. Kelley Honor Society of the Capital District to honor veterans from Albany and Rensselaer counties.

Thousands of people flocked to the nation’s capital Saturday for a Washington-wide celebration to honor the Army’s 250th ...

McMahon was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart, which is given to those who were wounded or had died during service. He died in the Philippines on Jan. 29, 1945 and was buried in Manila. It is ...

Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs returned a lost Purple Heart medal to the grandson of a World War II veteran who earned ...

A native of Tiverton, Potts served in the Rhode Island National Guard for over 14 years and was assigned to Alpha Battery, ...

As part of the U.S. Army’s 65th Infantry Division during World War II, Pfc. Edward Gorski Jr. was in a foxhole in Germany ...

Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs' Operation Purple Heart reunited a lost Purple Heart with the family of WWII veteran Edward Gorski Jr. during a ceremony in Geneva. Gorski, wounded in the Battle of ...

Edward Gorski Jr.’s Purple Heart medal was returned by the Illinois treasurer’s office to the World War II veteran’s grandson ...