The effort is part of Operation Purple Heart, a first-of-its-kind initiative led by Frerichs to return lost military medals found in abandoned safe deposit boxes.

A long-lost Purple Heart medal earned by a KC native is now in safe hands. Olivia Acree shares the story of how it was rescued from an auction in Gardner.

On Monday, veteran Sae Joon Park, who legally immigrated from South Korea when he was seven years old, flew back to his homeland under threat of deportation at the age of 55.

An Army Veteran and Purple Heart recipient who has lived in the U.S. for more than four decades self-deported to South Korea after immigration officials said he would otherwise be forcefully ...

A 55-year-old veteran of the U.S. Army who was wounded in action, awarded the Purple Heart and honorably discharged self-deported this week after being ordered to by federal immigration officials ...

Military veteran and Purple Heart recipient Sae Joon Park self-deported to South Korea after receiving an ultimatum from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The decorated U.S. Army veteran is starting a new life without his family in South Korea - a country he left as a child and barely remembers.