{"id":20685,"date":"2010-10-01T07:50:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T11:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20685"},"modified":"2010-10-01T07:50:04","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T11:50:04","slug":"update-on-stolen-purple-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20685","title":{"rendered":"Update on stolen Purple Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20638\">the story about Michael Demich<\/a>, the 89-year-old World War II veteran whose house was burglarized. Among the items stolen was his Purple Heart for wounds he got while engaged in military operations in France. Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/morningjournal.com\/articles\/2010\/10\/01\/news\/mj3411944.txt\">BooRadley sends an update<\/a> that the Purple Heart has been returned.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The man, probably in his 40s and with a young girl accompanying him, told Demich he bought the items for $10 and, when his wife told him about the newspaper article she read, he knew he had to return the items.<\/p>\n<p>Demich tried to offer the man a reward, but the man declined, saying he only wanted to return what belonged to Demich.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Demich and his family have received hundreds of phone calls and letters of support from his community and from across the nation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe want to thank everybody for all the response. It\u2019s overwhelming &#8230; People from around the country are reaching out,\u201d [Demich\u2019s daughter, Linda] Harrell said. \u201cIt\u2019s so nice that this has touched everybody\u2019s heart &#8230; This shows that people are sincere and do care about him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It looks like nothing but good news so far this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember the story about Michael Demich, the 89-year-old World War II veteran whose house &hellip; <a title=\"Update on stolen Purple Heart\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20685\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Update on stolen Purple Heart<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}