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NY WWII Vet's Lost Medals Returned to His Family
NY WWII Vet's Lost Medals Returned to His Family
LACKAWANNA, N.Y. December 18, 2013 A Purple Heart medal and other military decorations awarded to a World War II veteran have been returned to his daughter after the items were found in an old desk drawer in a county office building in western New York. Rita Dudczak (DUHD'-chehk) of Lackawanna tells local media outlets that she didn't even know her father's seven medals existed and has no idea how they wound up in a desk in Erie County's Rath Office Building in downtown Buffalo. On Monday, county officials returned her father's medals, which Vincent Mikolajczyk (MIHK'-lye-chehk) earned while serving in an Army combat unit in the Philippines. The retired autoworker died in 1983 at age 65. His medals were found during the cleaning of unused office space in the county building. How they got there remains a mystery. |
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I'm glad they made it back to a family member vs. laying on some shithole flea market table.
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Wow. I wonder what the other medals were.
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Glad that his daughter got the medals back so she could know the kind of American hero her dad is.
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Great story,glad the family has them.
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