{"id":248525,"date":"2013-03-28T02:23:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T07:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=248525"},"modified":"2013-03-28T09:48:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T14:48:54","slug":"purple-heart-found-in-calif-returned-to-texans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=248525","title":{"rendered":"Purple Heart Found in Calif. Returned to Texans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/03\/purple-heart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/03\/purple-heart-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"purple heart\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-248526\" \/><\/a>TYLER (AP) \u2013 A 1941 Pearl Harbor victim\u2019s Purple Heart found along a California road has been returned to his East Texas family thanks to a teacher and his students. Ken Hooper is a history and archives instructor at Bakersfield High School in Bakersfield, Calif. Hooper was on hand Tuesday in Tyler for the presentation to survivors of Robert Bates. Kris Wilson of Edom says the medal will help her uncle\u2019s memory live on. Relatives say the USS Arizona sailor\u2019s Purple Heart was likely given to his mother but lost after she died in 1945. The medal was found last month by a trucker near a Veterans of Foreign War Post in Bakersfield. Hooper\u2019s students doing computer research also learned some casualty lists wrongly spelled Robert Bates\u2019 first name \u2013 as Tobert. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER (AP) \u2013 A 1941 Pearl Harbor victim\u2019s Purple Heart found along a California road has been returned to his East Texas family thanks to a teacher and his students. Ken Hooper is a history and archives instructor at Bakersfield High School in Bakersfield, Calif. Hooper was on hand Tuesday in Tyler for the presentation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=248525\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Purple Heart Found in Calif. Returned to Texans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 06:03:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248525"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248584,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248525\/revisions\/248584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}