re: Found the saddest thing ever at a garage sale last weekend

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I go to a garage sale near Shanadoah last Friday. I find a bowl of jewelry and search through it.
For 50¢, I find a group of army ribbons and medals. They are all on one rack. They included Vietnam with one cluster, Arcom with cluster, Purple Heart, plus many more I didn’t recognize. Plus there was a Meritorious Unit Commendation with 5 clusters.
I turn and show the lady, making sure she knew these were in there, even though they were in a ziplock, priced 50¢.
She was like, “Yeah, they were my dad’s from when he was in the army.” She didn’t really give too shits about them.
I ask her if she knew what they were and she said no. I explained them to her and said these should not be sold.
I told her I’d take them if she really wanted to sell them, I would honor them.
She decided to keep them (I guess I guilted her into it).
This event has bothered me for four days now. How could someone do this?

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I am looking for a purple heart to replace my grandfathers. He was wounded in WWII and got the bronze star and purple heart. He lost his purple heart before coming back to the states. He passed away a few years ago and I will inherit his burial flag from my mom and I want to display his bronze star and purple heart, so if you would like to honor it, I could use it for my grandfather.