Purple Heart Day

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Today is National Purple Heart Day. I thought I would share from my father. He was wounded in action in the Korean War. The article is a little off, he was wounded as part of a mortar crew when his position was attacked by enemy mortar fire. After the surgery he went through rehabilitation working at Kojedo POW camp. He related his experience with honey buckets and later as as guard. He retrained as a corpsman and went back into combat. During his time as a corpsman he won two Bronze Star medals. He never talked about his experience to us except once at our mother?s urging. My mother did not know about the Bronze Stars until the VFW recited his citations at his funeral.