Army presents Purple Heart to Minnesota veteran 73 years after he was wounded in Korean War

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and MARK VANCLEAVE
Associated Press

ST. PETER, Minn. (AP) — After 73 years and a long fight with the Army, a Korean War veteran from Minnesota who was wounded in combat finally got his Purple Heart. The U.S. Army notified 96-year-old Earl Meyer last month that it had granted him the medal, which honors service members wounded in combat. He received it in a ceremony Friday in St. Peter. An Army review board had rejected Meyer’s application several times due to a lack of paperwork. It reversed course after a campaign by his three daughters, and intervention by U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and the service’s top noncommissioned officer.