Hubert S. Terry’s Purple Heart Medals returned to family

Scotty sent us a link to an article about the journey some medals made from a storage locker in Missouri to the veterans’ family in Mississippi. Scotty’s research skills that he uses to bust phonies aided in the search;

“He has real good computer investigative skills,” Cerchi said. “Of course, he has to because he mainly deals with exposing military phonies. He was just thrilled to be able to use those skills for something like this.

“Once Scott got on the case, the man we were searching for started to come to life. It wasn’t just a name on a medal — Hubert S. Terry — now it was Sgt. Terry, United States Army, a veteran of World War II, who served in the occupational forces of Japan and then went to Korea where he was killed in action on Sept. 4, 1951.”

Scott also informed the searchers that Sgt. Terry was buried in the Marks, Mississippi Cemetery.

“We thought we had a trace because we found an application for a military marker that was filled out by an Augustus Terry,” Cerchi said. “He turned out to be Hubert’s brother, but unfortunately had passed away in 2010.”

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