{"id":66071,"date":"2016-05-30T11:01:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T15:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66071"},"modified":"2016-05-30T11:01:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T15:01:17","slug":"purple-hearts-reunited-race-to-return-wwi-purple-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66071","title":{"rendered":"Purple Hearts Reunited; race to return WWI Purple Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=66072\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66072\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lady-Columbia-Wound-Certificate-257x333.jpg\" alt=\"Lady Columbia Wound Certificate\" width=\"257\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-66072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lady-Columbia-Wound-Certificate-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lady-Columbia-Wound-Certificate-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lady-Columbia-Wound-Certificate.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our buddy, Zach Fike, the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/purpleheartsreunited.org\/\">Purple Hearts Reunited<\/a> is in the news again. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/story\/news\/2016\/05\/30\/race-return-wwi-purple-hearts\/85144486\/\">The Associated Press<\/a> reports that the Vermont-based organization has set a goal to return 100 artifacts in his possession to the families of the rightful owners before the 100th anniversary of this country&#8217;s entry into the Great War on April 6th next year;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Georgia, Vt., resident Zachariah Fike, of the Vermont-based Purple Hearts Reunited, began the project after noticing he had in his collection of memorabilia a total of exactly 100 Purple Hearts or equivalent lithographs awarded for injuries or deaths from the Great War.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The lithographs, known as a Lady Columbia Wound Certificate and showing a toga-wearing woman knighting an infantry soldier on bended knee, were what World War I military members wounded or killed while serving were awarded before the Purple Heart came into being in 1932. World War I service members who already had a lithograph became eligible for a Purple Heart at that time.<\/p>\n<p>The Purple Hearts and the certificates include the name of the service member to whom they were awarded. Fike is working with researchers to try to find the descendants of the service members.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Zach Fike, the founder of Purple Hearts Reunited is in the news again. The &hellip; <a title=\"Purple Hearts Reunited; race to return WWI Purple Hearts\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66071\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Purple Hearts Reunited; race to return WWI Purple Hearts<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66071","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=66071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}