article_snippet: A dog has been praised for digging up a veteran's Purple Heart 25 years after the medal went missing.
article_snippet: This is tiny heart-shaped medallion which is awarded to U.S. servicemen wounded in battle .
article_snippet: Plick, whose father died in 1990, told the Denver Post: 'I will honor it as much as whose father honored it when whose father was alive.
article_snippet: I truly appreciate it from the bottom of my heart.'
article_snippet: Finally returned: the family got in touch with Purple Hearts Reunited, who helped connect the family with Plick .
article_snippet: Salute: Members of Purple Hearts Reunited salute Litman grave in Denver, Colorado .
article_snippet: Two years later he was wounded in battle.
article_snippet: he would later receive he Purple Heart for putting he in the line of danger for he country.
article_snippet: Jeff Roy, of the Military Order Of The Purple Heart, told the station: 'It is very important to remember the veteran that either gave his life, or shed his blood for his , and that it remain with his family.'
article_snippet: Special occasion: Dogs are not normally allowed in the cemetery but the directors made an exemption .