{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://houlahan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3645", "Vietnam veteran receives Purple Heart 56 years after being wounded", "2023-11-10", "2023", "2023-11", "Democrat", "House", "PA", "Chrissy Houlahan", "H001085", "houlahan.house.gov", "houlahan", "https://houlahan.house.gov/press/documentquery.aspx", "page_html", "Originally Published in the Pottstown Mercury\n\nSOUTH COVENTRY \u2014 More than 50 years ago, Robert Fields was shot in the head, twice in the same month.\n\nFields, then serving in Vietnam with the U.S. Army, was wounded badly enough the second time he had to spend six weeks recovering in a hospital in Japan.\n\nBut despite his injuries, he never sought the Purple Heart he had earned. Like many veterans who have seen war, Fields, a resident of Reading, did not talk much about the experience.\n\n\u201cBut you should never underestimate the determination of a military wife,\u201d observed U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan. The child of a 30-year Navy veteran and herself a retired captain in the U.S. Air Force, she knows a thing or two about military spouses.\n\nElizabeth Fields started with the Veterans Administration when she began her secret effort to get her husband\u2019s Purple Heart awarded.\n\nShe didn\u2019t have much luck there, so she turned to Houlahan\u2019s office, and her quest was put in the hands of aide Andrew Lippert, himself a U.S. Air Force Veteran.\n\nA few months later, \u201cmy office was able to surprise (Fields) with the news,\u201d that his Purple Heart had been secured, Houlahan said during a veterans ceremony Friday at Owen J. Roberts High School, where she pinned the medal on Fields in front of a crowd of fellow veterans, students and staff from the school.\n\n\u201cThis is my first time doing this, I hope I don\u2019t mess it up,\u201d she joked.\n\nThe first time he was hit, Fields, a sergeant, received a concussion and was put on \u201clight duty\u201d for several days. After returning to combat, he was struck again, again in the head, and this time the bullet pierced his helmet and \u201ccarved a furrow along his skull,\u201d Houlahan said.", 1, "2026-04-08T14:14:11Z", "2026-04-08T14:23:06Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://houlahan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3645"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9411657229065895, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}