former navy corpsman who then talk to chuck schumer s office to help locate his long-lost owner. today senator schumer presented the purple heart s to four generations of his family. mcnamara enlisted in 1942. he was wounded by nazi artillery fire in italy and 43 was a nazi prisoner of war for 472 days. his daughter catherine says last time anyone recur see in the purple heart was in 1962. the kids were getting antsy so she took him a dad stuff, the metals and i think there s some hats and stuff and she got them dressed up in but the metals on them and said quote play soldier. i think that was the last time i ever saw the metal. the bronze star medal and infantry man batch were also lost. both were reissued to the family today. they are incredibly thankful.
talk to chuck schumer s office to help locate his long-lost owner. today senator schumer presented the purple heart s to four generations of his family. mcnamara enlisted in 1942. he was wounded by nazi artillery fire in italy and 43 was a nazi prisoner of war for 472 days. his daughter catherine says last time anyone recur see in the purple heart was in 1962. the kids were getting antsy so she took him a dad stuff, the metals and i think there s some hats and stuff and she got them dressed up in but the metals on them and said quote play soldier. i think that was the last time i ever saw the metal. the bronze star medal and infantry man batch were also lost. both were reissued to the family today. they are incredibly thankful.
for generation of his family. mcnamara enlisted in 1942, was wounded by nazi artillery fire in italy in 1943 and was a nazi prisoner of war for 472 days. his daughter catherine said the last time anyone recall see the purple heart was 1962 when their mother allowed their cousins to play outside in the south bronx with dad stuff. it is the nations oldest were given to combat veterans. it was the family is incredibly thankful. also served in vietnam. when you come home you play your metals way. you kinda try to forget about that stuff. just go on with your life which is what he did. my dad was very quiet, humble man.
presented the purple heart to four generations of staff sergeant bernard mcnamara s family. he enlisted in 1942. he was wounded by nazi artillery fire in italy in 1943 and was a nazi prisoner of war for 472 days. his daughter katherine says the last time anyone recalls seeing the purple heart was back in 1962, when their mother allowed her cousins to play outside in the south bronx with dad s stuff. the kids would get nancy, so she took out my dad s stuff, the medals and i think there was a couple of little hats and stuff and she kind of got them dressed up and she pinned the medals on them and she told them go out and play soldier. i think that was the last time i ever saw the medals. the purple heart is nation s oldest award given to wounded combat veterans. over a thousand world war ii servicemembers had the name bj mcnamara. the family is incredibly