What is the source of the data saying this person is a Purple Heart winner?
Owen,
Here is a link to the Waco Tribune Paper that has an article, if you can believe anything the media print these days...Hopefully they got this fact right--It states he is a Purple Heart Recipient.
http://www.wacotrib.com/search/content/news/stories/2005/08/17/20050817waccrossmemorial.html
If that doesn't work...My mom and dad grew up with him and can vouch.
GeroGirl