Daughter needs help to get her father a new “presentation award”

I am looking for the help of a congress person for the state of Illinois or anyone else that can possibly fill the request below.  As sons and daughters we always try to fill the wishes of our parents and this woman needs some help in doing that.  Time passes so fast and before you know it years are gone.  If anyone reading this can help please contact me as soon as possible.  We need to do everything we can to help this hero get his presentation award back.  If we take time out of our busy lives I am sure someone can make this happen.  Please read below and if you can help let me know and I will put you in touch with the person that needs you.

To Whom It May Concern:

My father is a decorated veteran of the Korean War. I am currently faced with a challenge…  On April 21,1967 we lost everything that we owned in a tornado in Oak Lawn, IL. We were buried alive in the basement until we could be dug out. We had the cloths on our back and our lives to be grateful for.  After months of going thru debris to salvage what little of our family past could be found, my dad was able to recover his Army Uniform and his box of service awards.  We didn’t know this until we were adults and my step-mom had the medals framed and displayed in our home.

 My Dad never really spoke of the war, but often described how beautiful the “presentation award” that accompanied the medal that he was awarded in the hospital. He has always wished that the award could be replaced because it was one of the many items of personal significance that was destroyed by Mother Nature.  My initial inquiry to the Pentagon revealed that the records were lost in a fire in the 70’s….  I do not know where to go next to try and obtain a replacement of the Purple Heart presentation document.

 My Dad will be 80 in June of this year and I would love to be able to give him this document that was lost long ago.

I do have partial discharge papers from the Army Core of engineers, tattered maps of assignment locations, probably 50 black and white photos from the war, originally they were slides (these were recovered from the debris and restored by an unknown photographer). My Dads uniform is in a box, but was mostly destroyed by fiberglass.