{"id":64618,"date":"2016-03-01T10:51:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T15:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64618"},"modified":"2016-03-01T10:51:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T15:51:56","slug":"another-purple-heart-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64618","title":{"rendered":"Another Purple Heart story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=57270\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57270\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Purple-Heart-Medal-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"Purple Heart medal\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Purple-Heart-Medal-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Purple-Heart-Medal-200x333.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Purple-Heart-Medal.jpg 1232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Hack Stone sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.philly.com\/news\/?wss=\/philly\/news&#038;id=370343481&#038;betaPreview=redesign\">a link to the story<\/a> of Nancy Sasson who was cleaning out a closet in her parents&#8217; house when she discovered a Purple Heart medal on the floor. It was engraved on the back with the name Irvin S. Grindrod, who had been a captain nearly a hundred years ago with service in The Great War. The Purple Heart hadn&#8217;t been awarded during that war;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1932, Gen. Douglas MacArthur resurrected the medal &#8211; a purple enamel heart showing a profile of Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Military personnel who had earned a Meritorious Service Citation Certificate in World War I could exchange the document for the Purple Heart. Those who had been wounded could swap their &#8220;wound chevrons,&#8221; worn on the sleeve, for the new award.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of veterans applied to do that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Grindrod was one of them. Ms. Sasson tracked the trail from World War I to her parents&#8217; closet and found out things about her own heritage that she hadn&#8217;t previously known. You should read the whole story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hack Stone sends us a link to the story of Nancy Sasson who was cleaning out &hellip; <a title=\"Another Purple Heart story\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64618\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Another Purple Heart story<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64618","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=64618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}