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Significantly more than 1,500,000 Purple Hearts have already been given to American servicemen and -women since World War Two. The medals are among the military's top honors and are often found proudly displayed on outfits, sleeping places or in family domiciles. They are perhaps not the sort of items when one lately was you had be prepared to find in a thrift shop-and, it started a cross-country effort. 

Gene Dobos was going through an old store in California when he discovered a worn, heart-shaped medal blended in with the knickknacks. It absolutely was a Heart bearing the name "Frank D. Smith." Purple Hearts are awarded to American soldiers who are hurt by the enemy and to the next of kin of soldiers killed in action or who die from injuries received in battle. Dobos, who comprehended the importance of the honor, bought it from the store and helped set off a national seek out its owner. 

Dobos reached the Military Order of the Purple Heart-an company of combat veterans who work to respect the honor and its users. They call themselves the "Keepers of the Medal." Ray Funderburk, the group's public relations chief-who is a Vietnam veteran with two Purple Hearts himself-researched the medal and eventually unearthed that Frank N. Smith was a personal in the U.S. Army who died in Vietnam almost 40 years back. 

Jones, who was 20 at the time, was in a that was ambushed on December 17, 1968-just fourteen days before he was scheduled to come back to his home state of Ohio permanently. 

After learning Smith's history, Funderburk considered an Ohio genealogist for help in investigating Smith's resting place and surviving family. 

"It looks as though the honor has been treated several times," said Funderburk. "I envisioned his mom and dad taking the honor out and keeping it in their hands, thinking about their son." 

Sooner or later, Smith's grave was within a cemetery perhaps not far from his childhood home in Ohio. His parents had died, but his siblings were found using e-mails they had sent memorializing their brother at an on line registry for fallen Vietnam War soldiers. They did not know the medal had gone missing and were "overwhelmed" that a number of strangers had worked so hard to return it for them. 

Frank D. Jones was married and had a kid briefly before shipping off to Vietnam (he enlisted voluntarily). After his death, his widow and daughter moved west, possibly getting the Purple Heart together. It is as yet not known the way the honor arrived in a thrift store. 

For Smith's sister Jonna, the return of the honor brought with it a of emotions-and she wasn't alone in her reaction. Funderburk, of the Purple Heart Order, was so inspired by how many people who came together to return the honor to Smith's family he penned a poem. His son-in-law helped him set what to music and a CD was created that's being sold. Profits help pay for young people that are joined by a scholarship program with veterans who're bedridden and residing in Veteran Affairs facilities. 

The song's chorus reads: 

Purple Hearts are won in battle; grenades explode, device guns rattle; a dies, a mother cries; that is how Purple Hearts are won. 

The Order and Smith's family prepared a little ceremony to be kept in the cemetery. The Purple Heart will undoubtedly be encased in glass and mounted on Smith's headstone. 

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