40-year wait nets two Purple Hearts
Vietnam veteran, 61, twice injured in war, is finally honored in Marine Corps ceremony
By Frederick N. Rasmussen
September 7, 2008
Vietnam veteran Gerald W. Elliott had waited 40 years for this moment, and he wasn't about to let Tropical Storm Hanna keep him away from the military ceremony at which he was to be decorated with two Purple Hearts.
Elliott, 61, a Salisbury resident, accompanied by his wife of 39 years, a daughter and a granddaughter, arrived shortly before the 11 a.m. ceremony yesterday at the Marine Corps Reserve Center in Northeast Baltimore.
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