The Daily Hampshire Gazette: ‘Finally they’re being recognized’: Vietnam veteran Jim Bouchard of Granby is state’s representative in Purple Heart Patriot Project

GRANBY — In January 1970, while serving as a hospital corpsman in Vietnam, Jim Bouchard treated John Hurley after he was injured during the war. It wasn’t until decades later, when the two Purple Heart recipients were at a Veterans of Foreign Wars meeting together, that they realized their connection.

Last year, Hurley represented Massachusetts at the nation’s second Purple Heart Patriot Project trip to New York.

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