A Purple Heart is one of the most prestigious awards a member of the military can receive . . . and an official in Illinois just helped the family of a World War Two veteran named James Bennett get it back.
James died in 1990 at the age of 76, and he’d apparently left the award in a safe deposit box, which was marked as abandoned. Now, it has been reunited with his family. Unfortunately, it sounds like this is a pretty common issue.
