{"id":55943,"date":"2014-10-22T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55943"},"modified":"2014-10-21T15:32:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T19:32:39","slug":"purple-heart-returned-to-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55943","title":{"rendered":"Purple Heart returned to daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55944\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55944\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Pfc.-Thomas-Edward-McGraw-198x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Pfc. Thomas Edward McGraw\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Pfc.-Thomas-Edward-McGraw-198x300.jpeg 198w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Pfc.-Thomas-Edward-McGraw-219x333.jpeg 219w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Pfc.-Thomas-Edward-McGraw.jpeg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mark sends us link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2014\/10\/purple_heart_found_at_liverpool_school_playground_to_be_returned_to_family_15_ye.html#incart_m-rpt-2\">Syracuse.com<\/a> which reports that Robyn DeCuffa will be recovering the Purple Heart medal that she had lost in a robbery years ago thinks to <a href=\"http:\/\/purpleheartsreunited.org\/\">Purple Hearts Reunited<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Her father, Army Pfc. Thomas Edward McGraw, of North Syracuse, died in an ambush at age 19, among the first casualties of the Vietnam war from Onondaga County.<\/p>\n<p>McGraw&#8217;s Purple Heart had been presented posthumously to her mother, who gave it to Robyn when she turned 18, along with the flag that had covered her father&#8217;s coffin. Years later the medal was stolen, and DeCuffa said she never thought she would see it again.<\/p>\n<p>But thanks to the persistence of two strangers, the Purple Heart will be returned to DeCuffa and her family next month &#8212; 15 years after it was found by a fourth-grader at the Liverpool School District&#8217;s Willow Field Elementary School on Route 31.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Galloway&#8217;s son found the medal and turned it into the school&#8217;s lost-and-found. Nobody claimed it after a year, so Galloway held onto it until Jan. 20, when she heard about the group Purple Hearts Reunited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark sends us link from the Syracuse.com which reports that Robyn DeCuffa will be recovering the &hellip; <a title=\"Purple Heart returned to daughter\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55943\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Purple Heart returned to daughter<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55943","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=55943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}