{"id":46762,"date":"2014-05-11T08:38:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T12:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=46762"},"modified":"2014-05-11T08:38:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T12:38:45","slug":"46762","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46762","title":{"rendered":"Purple Hearts Reunited Strikes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve written more than once before here on TAH about Zachariah Fike and his nonprofit organization, Purple Hearts Reunited (two previous articles can be found <a href=\"..\/?p=35116\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"..\/?p=37149\">here)<\/a>.\u00a0 Their mission is to return recovered military decorations to their original owners and\/or next of kin.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it looks like they\u2019re due for some more public recognition and thanks.<\/p>\n<p>The 1945 Good Conduct Medal of Navy retiree Richard Gene Woody was recently f<a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20140510\/NEWS\/305100030\/WWII-medal-Nebraska-man-found-Vermont\">ound hidden inside an empty VCR cassette<\/a>, wrapped in plastic and hidden in a tree in Milton, VT. \u00a0\u00a0A number of other military-related artifacts were also found with Woody\u2019s GCM.<\/p>\n<p>Woody died in 1982.\u00a0 However, Fike was able to locate Woody\u2019s son, Myron Gene Woody in Sidney, NE.\u00a0 He plans to return the medal to Woody\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p>Well done, folks.\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Purple Hearts Reunited is a nonprofit organization.\u00a0 If you have a few spare dollars looking for a home, IMO maybe you should consider them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve written more than once before here on TAH about Zachariah Fike and his nonprofit organization, &hellip; <a title=\"Purple Hearts Reunited Strikes Again\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46762\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Purple Hearts Reunited Strikes Again<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46762","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}