Eden Prairie family lost two sons to war

Eden Prairie family lost two sons to war

Editor’s note: John E. Mallo, a longtime Eden Prairie resident and veteran who helped create the Eden Prairie Veterans Memorial at Purgatory Creek Park, is writing a weekly series ahead of Memorial Day about local veterans who were prisoners of war or never returned home. For the next four weeks, I will have articles on Eden Prairie’s finest. These articles will be about veterans who were POWs — prisoners of war — or MIAs — missing in action — w…