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Pawn shop seeks Purple Heart recipient’s family
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Jan 28, 2012 11:17:07 EST
Posted : Saturday Jan 28, 2012 11:17:07 EST
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A central Ohio pawn shop buyer says he bought a military combat medal from a seller in hopes of returning the Purple Heart to the family of the original recipient.
A seller who reported finding a Purple Heart on a street sold the item to Uncle Sam’s Pawn Shop in Columbus this week for $30, according to TV station WCMH.
The medal is inscribed for late Army Pfc. Leroy Bryant of Franklin, who fought in the Korean War. Records show Bryant was listed as missing in action and later presumed dead after he was captured in February 1951.
Buyer Gary Chasin said the medal doesn’t belong in his pawn shop. Chasin said he would like to return it to Bryant’s family.
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