Purple Heart found in abandoned car to be reunited with sailorâs family Purple Heart found abandoned in car in Reno, Nevada. (Source: KOLO) By Rebecca Kitchen | February 19, 2021 at 9:36 PM EST - Updated February 19 at 10:34 PM RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - Seventy-six years after a U.S. Navy steward died in kamikaze attacks at the battle of Iwo Jima, the Purple Heart he received is being given to a son he never met. A Purple Heart given to Charles N. Lincoln, chief commissary steward on the USS Bismarck, was found a few years ago in a vehicle in the All Points Towing junkyard.