James Peyton tells ABC15 he was injured multiple times in combat - in one incident, he explains he had to remove shrapnel from his own chest and had no other choice.

On a recent fall day, Tuttle’s 71-year-old daughter held her father’s heart-shaped medal for the first time after Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs presented it to her during a poignant Oct. 29 ...

A Port Hawkesbury woman has long imagined a Remembrance Day with her great-uncle's war medals. It will happen this year for ...

Although the former Rousselot gelatin factory sits empty along Washington Street, the names of a special group of employees ...

The medal one of twelve that Frerichs office has been able to return. READ ALSO | Black WWII veteran who was denied the ...

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Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs returned Tuttle's Purple Heart to his daughter, Carolyn Peckham, during a private ...

The state of Illinois has returned a Purple Heart medal to the daughter of a Marine who was wounded in the invasion of Saipan ...

The veterans were presented with replacement medals on Saturday by the British High Commissioner to Kenya, Neil Wigan.