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Homeless Purple Heart medals get Texas museum home

By Michael Graczyk
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FREDERICKSBURG, Texas (AP) — Little is known about long-deceased sailors Howard Donald Seibert and Orville E. Kimball except their fate.

The Navy men were killed in World War II in the Pacific, earning each of them a Purple Heart. But since neither sailor had any known relatives, for years the medals were left without a permanent home.

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