ROS sends us the story of a non-veterans’ search for the family of whose oldest brother gave the last full measure of devotion in the frozen forests outside of Bastogne;<\/p>\n
As Harris said in his soft Southern voice, it bothered him to see that medal \u2014 the award the nation gives to its wounded or killed military personnel \u2014 on a junk-filled shelf of old lapel pins and pendants.<\/p>\n
Harris asked to look at the Purple Heart more closely and saw the words “PFC Dewey A. Tafoya” and “1-7-45” engraved on the back. The clerk told him he could have it for just $95.<\/p>\n
“I thought about that medal every day for a week and it just didn’t seem right that it was just sitting there,” Harris said. “You knew that there was some family, somewhere, that would want that medal.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But, you need to read the whole story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"