During the service today, the police chief posthumously awarded Labonte the Purple Heart medal which is given to an officer ...

The Purple Heart medal is awarded to U.S. military members who are wounded in service. It is the nation’s oldest military award, introduced by General George Washington in 1782. Nancy Clark ...

The Iowa Treasurer’s Office, which returned the Purple Heart to the family of Garold Hayes, now seeks Iowans’ help ...

After a Purple Heart military medal was found in a deceased Iowan's ... that is injured in the service," said Clark, who was eventually identified as Hayes' next of kin. Smith said the state ...

(WTNH) — A Connecticut service member is getting ... who encouraged him to apply for the medal you get for being injured in combat, the Purple Heart. When you are in an active war zone, there ...

The State Treasurer's office says it found the military medal inside in a safety deposit box belonging to Garold Hayes.

Garold Hayes’ family was overjoyed when they received the Purple Heart that had been stored in his safe deposit box and left unclaimed for years after he died.