Sioux City Journal: Sioux City Purple Heart recipient honored with West Point trip
SIOUX CITY -- While serving in the Marines during the war in Vietnam, Jack Hanson received a military decoration no one ever asks for.
Because of that medal, he'll fly to New York later this month to take part in an event anyone would be honored to attend.
A Purple Heart recipient, Hanson will represent Iowa at the Purple Heart Patriot Project, a four-day event honoring American veterans who have been wounded in combat.