Information from WYSH Radio
On Monday morning, Anderson County Veterans Service Officer Leon Jaquet and other officials gathered in his office in the Courthouse to present a long-overdue Purple Heart to the widow of a soldier wounded during World War II.
Former U.S. Army rifleman Louis Allison was wounded in Germany in early 1945 but never received his Purple Heart. He passed away in 2003 at the age of 80.
When his widow Cecil Allison moved to Clinton, she and her daughter realized that two of Louis Allison’s medals were missing. They were able to get those awards reauthorized and reissued, but during the process learned that Allison had been due a Purple Heart that was never received.
The family turned to Jaquet last spring and in October, the Army authorized the award, and it was sent to his office, arriving just last week.
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