OWATONNA, Minn. - One might say 20-year-old Kyle Lafontaine couldn't be more down on his luck. He is homeless, jobless and has a defunct car to boot.
While tending to his broken down car on the side of the road in rural Waseca Monday night, a shiny glimmer in the gravel caught his eye. That glimmer came from a Purple Heart medallion that had been missing for 60 years from Charles T. Sutlief, a soldier who lost his life in battle in 1950 during the Korean War.
"I saw the guy's name engraved on the back and the next morning I woke up and Googled his name," Lafontaine said. "I found out he died in a Korean War casualty, killed in action."
