{"id":37149,"date":"2013-08-19T08:59:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37149"},"modified":"2013-08-19T08:59:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:59:30","slug":"everett-l-macdonalds-purple-heart-back-in-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37149","title":{"rendered":"Everett L. MacDonald\u2019s Purple Heart back in the family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph sends <a href=\"http:\/\/everett.advocatenews.net\/long-lost-purple-heart-finally-comes-home-for-wwii-hero\/\">a link to the story<\/a> of Tech Sergeant Everett L. MacDonald\u2019s medals which were lost when his widow died and were returned to the family a few weeks ago. Sergeant MacDonald was killed on September 13, 1944; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For his service and his sacrifice, Technical Sargent MacDonald was bestowed with a Purple Heart, a Distinguished Flying Cross, and an Air Medal, all of which were given to his wife, which she held onto for the entirety of her life. After her passing, the medals were found amongst her possessions and through the diligent work of Purple Hearts Reunited and Captain Zacariah Fike, have now been returned to Technical Sargent MacDonald\u2019s nephew.<br \/>\nIn attendance were the Patriot members of the Military Order of the Purple Heart&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Everett, Massachusetts must be a great place to live for so many of it&#8217;s residents to pay tribute to a man none of them ever knew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph sends a link to the story of Tech Sergeant Everett L. MacDonald\u2019s medals which were &hellip; <a title=\"Everett L. MacDonald\u2019s Purple Heart back in the family\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37149\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Everett L. MacDonald\u2019s Purple Heart back in the family<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37149","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=37149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}