Alabama WWI Vet Gets Purple Heart 90 Years Late

Alabama Dothan Hoyt Canady who took a bullet in the leg fighting Germans in France is finally being honored for his sacrifice with a posthumous Purple Heart.

by The Associated Press

Published: Wed, March 25, 2009 - 2:46 pm CST Last Updated: Wed, March 25, 2009 - 2:48 pm CST

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) - A World War I veteran who took a bullet in
the leg fighting Germans in France is finally being honored for his
sacrifice with a posthumous Purple Heart.
Hoyt Alexander Canady got a wound chevron, but never received a
Purple Heart, which had lapsed at the time but revived in 1932 and
made retroactively available. Canady's son-in-law, Jack Clements,
started working 10 years ago to recover records allowing the Purple
Heart to go to Canady, who died in 1970 at the age of 75.
Clements, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, eventually found
the records at a Veterans Administration hospital in Atlanta.
Canady's daughter, June Clements, said her father, an Army
infantryman, was wounded while fighting at ChFateau-Thierry in
France in 1918.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Hate-it Says:

Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:27 pm

That’s heart warming. We are so very proud of our veterans. Maybe in 70 years someone will take the time to remember the Vietnam Veterans. They are the heros of my life.