Box PxP30 -- Folder: Calif- Newscopy: "FOR A HEROIC SON - General Mark Clark presents Purple Heart to Mrs. Pearl Caligari, posthumorous award to her son whose grave in Holland has been faithfully tended by a Dutch girl". An invalid mother whose only son was killed in European flighting in 1945 was hostess to a four-star general today in her tiny apartment at 1029 Franklin-st. General Mark Clark presented Mrs. Pearl Caligari with a Purple Heart, awarded posthumously to her son, Corporal James J. Currier. He met nine of her friends who had gathered for the ceremony, and heard them tell about 'what a fine boy he was,' he 'he always accomplished what he started' and how 'he played trumpet in the band'...."
