Army looking into 96-year-old Korean War veteran’s case after he sues for Purple Heart

Fox News Web Site ^ | 11/11/2023 | M. Brotherton

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Seventy years after the Korean War ended, veteran Earl Meyer is still waiting for his Purple Heart.

The 96-year-old Minnesotan can still feel the shrapnel that remains lodged in his leg that he says happened when his platoon came under heavy fire in June 1951. Doctors have said it’s too close to his sciatic nerve to remove.

In recent years, at the urging of his daughters who he only opened up to about his war experiences as he got older, Meyer decided to apply for a Purple Heart, but he has repeatedly been denied as decades have faded positive proof.

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Way back when, my high school Chemistry teacher told us of his Korean War Purple Heart.

As he was getting off the back of a truck in a combat zone, his ring somehow got caught up in the overhead. I don’t remember exactly what happened to his finger but he was sent to a Medic. He was declared wounded in action and received the medal