Earl Meyer thinks the medic who treated his mortar shrapnel injury died before submitting paperwork about it, causing the Army to reject his application.
ST. PETER, Minn. (AP) 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 […]
Doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs agreed that his account of the shrapnel coming from a mortar attack was probably true. But few men in his unit who would