Honor earned, but his medal waits 70 years

Seventy years after shrapnel from German mortar fire tore into his right shoulder, John LaPuzz got his proper recognition this winter at a veterans home in Paramus, N.J. A clerical error in his discharge from the Army led LaPuzz on a decades-long battle to claim the Purple Heart medal he had earned in the bloody fields of Italy a month after D-Day.

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