{"id":37647,"date":"2013-09-19T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37647"},"modified":"2013-09-19T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T13:16:00","slug":"daughter-to-be-united-with-fathers-purple-heart-and-his-only-words-to-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37647","title":{"rendered":"Daughter to be united with father&#8217;s Purple Heart and his only words to her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>gruntsgt sends us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2013\/09\/19\/purple-heart-given-to-wwii-soldier-daughter-7-decades-later\/?intcmp=latestnews\">Fox News<\/a> which tells of the 70-year journey of a letter written by an ill-fated father to the daughter who would never know him. 14 years ago, Donna Gregory found a box while helping her husband clean out their garage. In the box was a letter from Private First Class John Eddington who had just learned of the birth of his daughter, Peggy, while he was serving in Europe during World War II. The private was killed soon after and the letter made it to it&#8217;s intended recipient.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gregory, of St. Louis, then spent the next 14 years in libraries and on the Internet trying to track down the elusive daughter. She called every Eddington in Missouri, trying to find the right Peggy. No one could help.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year she enlisted the help of friends and began reaching out on Facebook, leading to a breakthrough &#8212; she found Peggy Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 2,000 miles from St. Louis, Smith said she knew her father died in the war, and knew he earned the Purple Heart. But she didn&#8217;t know what happened to it. Smith figured her mother had lost the medal or given it away &#8212; until Gregory called.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Saturday, after a parade, the local Patriot Guard Riders will present the letter along with her father&#8217;s Purple Heart to 69-year-old Peggy Smith at a school in Dayton Nevada. But you should read the whole story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gruntsgt sends us a link from Fox News which tells of the 70-year journey of a &hellip; <a title=\"Daughter to be united with father&#8217;s Purple Heart and his only words to her\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37647\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daughter to be united with father&#8217;s Purple Heart and his only words to her<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37647","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=37647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}