(AP) — The widow of a World War II veteran who died in 2010 has received a posthumous Purple Heart on his behalf.
U.S. Sen. Todd Young pinned the medal on 90-year-old Marjorie Eberle’s blouse Friday during a ceremony for her late husband, Earl Eberle, at an American Legion post in Bloomington.
The Herald-Times reports that Marjorie Eberle said afterward that, “I bet he’s sitting on a cloud, saying, ‘Thank you, kids.'”
At his father’s funeral in May 2010, Earl Eberle’s son, Frank, promised that he’d make sure his father got a Purple Heart.
Earl Eberle was honored in life with two Bronze Stars, the Combat Infantry badge and numerous other medals, but he never received a Purple Heart for being shot in the jaw during a September 1944 firefight in Germany.