100-Year-Old World War II Veteran Finally Receives Purple Heart From Battle of Okinawa
Harvey Drahos was wounded in action when he was 22 years old, in the World War II Battle of Okinawa. He received his Purple Heart this year, at age 100. The ceremony was held Sept. 30 at the Olympic Flight Museum in Olympia, Washington. Drahos’s service in the Army as an expert rifleman assigned to the 96th …