RSSVet finds Purple Heart snatched by tornado
Carolyn Hileman - The Voice | May 29, 2008
A Texas woman offered a gift from the heart to a Vietnam veteran after his home took a direct hit from a tornado – a Purple Heart.
Kathleen Adkins of Sugar Land, Texas, heard Pete Ambrose of Weld County, Colo., had lost his two Purple Hearts in a tornado while he was busy warning three people to take cover, only seconds before the deadly twister struck Thursday, the Denver Post reported.
Ambrose quickly hid in his mobile home park bathroom while the tornado reduced his residence to rubble.
“Nothing on [the property] but cinder blocks,” he told reporters. “When it was gone, it was gone. It was quiet.”
The tornado destroyed the park, leaving strips of metal hanging from trees, remnants coated with thick layers of mud and sweeping his possessions away with his war mementos.
After Ambrose’s story appeared on the local news, Adkins searched through her attic to find a Purple Heart that belonged to her cousin, Valentine Maciag, who had been killed in World War II. She had kept it in storage for years.
“This was my grandmother’s pride and joy,” she said. “She would have loved it to go to someone like Ambrose.”
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