{"id":54034,"date":"2014-07-19T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54034"},"modified":"2014-07-19T14:25:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T18:25:55","slug":"purple-hearts-reunited-comes-through-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54034","title":{"rendered":"Purple Hearts Reunited Comes Through Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> T\/Sgt. Emilio Ricci was a medic in the Pacific during World War II. He was assigned to the 43rd Infantry Division.<\/p>\n<p>71 years ago today, he was KIA. His NOK at the time received his Purple Heart.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, T\/Sgt Emilio\u2019s Purple Heart. . . wandered. The medal was rediscovered in a VFW attic in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>A recent vet \u2013 also a Purple Heart recipient \u2013 notified Purple Hearts Reunited. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/article\/20140717\/NEWS\/307170049\/WWII-soldier-s-Purple-Heart-returning-family\">Today, the medal was returned to T\/Sgt Ricci\u2019s family.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well done, all. And especially well done, Purple Hearts Reunited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\/Sgt. Emilio Ricci was a medic in the Pacific during World War II. He was assigned &hellip; <a title=\"Purple Hearts Reunited Comes Through Again\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54034\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Purple Hearts Reunited Comes Through 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":[84,118,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-veterans-issues","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54034","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=54034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}