Earl Meyer remembers in vivid detail when his platoon came under heavy fire during the Korean War he still has shrapnel embedded in his thigh. But over 70 years later, the 96-year-old is still waiting for the U.S. Army to recognize his injury and to award him a Purple Heart medal.
Earl Meyer remembers in vivid detail when his platoon came under heavy fire during the Korean War he still has shrapnel embedded in his thigh. But over 70 years later, the 96-year-old is still waiting for the U.S. Army to recognize his injury and to award him a Purple Heart medal.
Earl Meyer remembers in vivid detail when his platoon came under heavy fire during the Korean War he still has shrapnel embedded in his thigh. But over 70 years later, the 96-year-old is still waiting for the U.S. Army to recognize his injury and to award him a Purple Heart medal.
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Earl Meyer remembers in vivid detail when his platoon came under heavy fire during the Korean War he still has shrapnel embedded in his thigh. Meyer has provided the Army with documents to back up his assertion that he was wounded in combat in June 1951. Doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs agreed that his account of the shrapnel coming from a mortar attack was probably true.