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14 November 10 • 2016

Not Forgotten

WWII soldier’s family to be reunited
with Purple Heart Certificate at HMC.

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he Holocaust Memorial Center Training Corps (ROTC) program,
in Farmington Hills will host
located the next-of-kin, Allyse
a Purple Heart Certificate
Denmark.
reuniting ceremony honoring a
During this event, the Purple Heart
Michigan soldier who perished in
Certificate, along with the accompany-
World War II.
ing medal, will be reunited
Also sponsored by the U.S.
with the Mathis family.
Army and Purple Hearts
“Tech. 5th Grade Robert
Reunited, an organization
Mathis left the only home he
that reunites lost Purple
ever knew and gave his life
Hearts with veterans or their
serving a country that opened
families, the event will take
its arms to him,” said Cheryl
place at 1 p.m., Sunday, Nov.
Guyer, interim HMC execu-
13. It is open to the public
tive director. “We are honored
and will include a color guard Robert Mathis to have the opportunity to
conducted by the Jewish War
host this ceremony, which is
Veterans.
especially meaningful as it so closely
In 1912, Reuven Matusevitch was
follows Veterans Day, a time where we
born in Kaunas, Lithuania. After
all want to give thanks to the men and
graduating college and completing his
women who fight for our freedom.”
Lithuanian Army Service, he immi-
Yandura added, “An Army soldier is
grated to the U.S. around 1939. He
a soldier for life. Our veterans under-
joined his siblings and other family
stand this. The solemn act of find-
members and changed his name to
ing, then returning the Purple Heart
Robert Mathis. He planned to bring
Certificate of a soldier killed in 1944
his wife, Ida, and young child to join
to the family 72 years later is merely
him, but they, along with his parents,
a reflection of our Army values and
Mordecai and Rachel, perished during never-accept-defeat attitude.
the Nazi invasion around 1941.
“All soldiers live by an ethos that
After living in the U.S. for about two says: ‘I will never leave a fallen
years, Technician 5th Grade Robert
comrade.’ Robert Mathis was one of
Mathis enlisted into the Army’s 36th
ours, and he made the kind of sac-
Combat Engineers and was deployed
rifice every soldier is prepared to
to defend the infamous beachfront
make. Through Mathis’ noteworthy
of Anzio, Italy. There, he was killed
life and death, we see both the price
in action, earning him the honor-
of freedom and the cost of war. It was
able Purple Heart. He was buried in
our duty to return this certificate to
Hebrew Memorial Cemetery in Detroit the family; to help reclaim a soldier’s
at age 31.
honor and restore a long-lost piece of
More than 70 years later, Lt. Col.
Jewish-American history.”
Matthew Yandura was stationed at
RSVPs to the ceremony can be made by calling
the Jerusalem Consulate and discov-
the Holocaust Memorial Center at (248) 553-2400.
ered Robert Mathis’ Purple Heart
Requested attire is business professional for civil-
Certificate there. After months of
ians and dress uniforms for military personnel.
research, Cadet Jay Choi, a senior
in the Loyola Army Reserve Officer

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