Show 1 L F 4 d I t tI I 4 s. s I p A f v j t t A letter from Joan Toan De Deuey ey Mackay 1 year old 1 orphan or or- plum phan to Gen l brought ht her a purple I heart as a souvenir of her soldier father who I died 1 in a Japanese prison camp Al AP TO REMEMBER DAD BY I M Arthur MArthur Sends Medal Med To Orphan Gir Gd 8 SAN FRANCISCO April 17 UPI Orphaned D Orphaned year old Joan Dewey MacKay Wednesday has a purple heart medal medal awarded awarded at atthe atthe atthe the express command of Gen MacArthur as a keepsake in memory of her daddy She stood resolutely before an n honor guard on the windswept Presidio drill field Tuesday to receive the posthumous award for her soldier father Everett Evrett D. D MacKay who died in a Japanese prison when she was three e Joan wrote MacArthur When the friends of Poppa Everett E that you sent home came carne to visit isit us they told us he had been shot Will you please try and find his purple heart and send It to me mc The Japs took his watch ring and pin so I have nothing nothing- of his his Maj Gen Homer M. M Groninger commander of the port of embarkation embarkation em em- presented the medal in MacArthurs MacArthur's behalf |