Earl Meyer remembers in vivid detail when his platoon came under heavy fire during the Korean War -- he still has shrapnel embedded in his thigh.
But over 70 years later, the 96-year-old is still waiting for the U.S. Army to recognize his injury and to award him a Purple Heart medal, which honors service members wounded or killed in combat.Meyer has provided the Army with documents to back up his assertion that he was wounded in combat in June 1951. Doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs agreed that his account of the shrapnel coming from a mortar attack was probably true.
The records show his treatment included a tetanus shot, apparently for the shrapnel injury.“I still had the hole in my pants and the blood on it,' he said about the time he was hospitalized for his back. He said he still had the patch on his leg. “I should have told them at that time.”But he wasn't thinking then about gathering paperwork for a future medal. His mind was on survival.'I was just glad to get out of there,” he said.
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