Purple Heart Recipients

13 Purple Hearts Meet, Remember By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal Edition of Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014 When Doug Walker returned home from Vietnam in 1967, he was told to wear his civilian clothes. “We were not very welcome,” he said. But on Sunday, Sept. 28, Walker sat down in the Doubleday Café with 15 veterans of the 2nd Platoon, Mike Company, 3/9 Marines, 13 of them Purple Heart recipients, in a gathering organized by Warren Ryther of Garrattsville. “They…