WWI veteran's family receives medals never awarded

UPDATED 23:20 PM EST, November 13, 2012

The family of Noah Bullock, a veteran of World War I who died in 1969, received the Purple Heart and North Carolina service medal Bullock earned but was never awarded, The Fayetteville Observer reports.

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