Alabama WWI Vet Gets Purple Heart 90 Years Late

Hoyt Canady, who took a bullet in the leg fighting Germans in France, is finally being honored for his sacrifice with a posthumous Purple Heart.

By: Jamie Burch | WKRG-TV
Published: March 25, 2009

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DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) - A World War I veteran who took a bullet in
the leg fighting Germans in France is finally being honored for his
sacrifice with a posthumous Purple Heart.
Hoyt Alexander Canady got a wound chevron, but never received a
Purple Heart, which had lapsed at the time but revived in 1932 and
made retroactively available. Canady's son-in-law, Jack Clements,
started working 10 years ago to recover records allowing the Purple
Heart to go to Canady, who died in 1970 at the age of 75.
Clements, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, eventually found
the records at a Veterans Administration hospital in Atlanta.
Canady's daughter, June Clements, said her father, an Army
infantryman, was wounded while fighting at ChFateau-Thierry in
France in 1918.

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