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76-YEAR-OLD VETERAN FINALLY GETS HIS MEDALS --

Awarded Purple Heart, Good Conduct, National

Defense and Korean Service medals.

 

 

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76-year-old veteran gets his due medals

Associated Press

NEW ULM, Minn. - A 76-year-old veteran of the Korean War was presented with some long-overdue medals after a paperwork snafu was untangled.

Warren Jorgensen on Monday received the Purple Heart, U.S. Army Good Conduct, National Defense and Korean Service medals, as well as a letter acknowledging his disability resulting from a combat wound to his shoulder.

Last April, Warren Jorgensen went to see Brown County Veterans Service Officer Greg Peterson to make sure the Social Security Administration had a record of his military discharge.

Peterson immediately caught errors in his discharge paperwork.

"I noticed that he served in the war and was discharged but that not all his military medals were listed on his discharge papers," Peterson said.

Jorgensen joined the U.S. Army several months after graduating from Sleepy Eye High School in 1949.

He recalled crawling on his belly near the top of a hill in Korea in 1950, when a North Korean shell landed nearby.

"All the sudden, it hit and a nearby tree, and I was knocked about 50 feet down the hill. My shoulder hurt badly," Jorgensen said.

Three weeks later, he returned to the infantry and was carrying his rifle.

After leaving the Army, Jorgensen, his brother and father worked at Jorgensen's Electric and Metal Shop in Sleepy Eye.

The men later operated a corn, oats, barley and flax seed cleaning business.

From 1965 until retiring in 1992, Jorgensen worked at Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing in New Ulm.

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Larry Scott

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