Purple Heart Awarded Posthumously After Ship Remains Found

Star Staff Reports After 72 years, Seaman First Class James Cunningham of Jackson, received the Purple Heart he earned as he went down with his ship. During a ceremony in Millington on July 27, Rear Adm. Jeff Hughes, Commander, Navy Personnel Command, posthumously presented Cunningham’s 85-year-old sister, Clara Cunningham Osborne of Knoxville, with the decoration. …