The church bells at St. Mary’s rang at the appointed time on Sunday: at the stroke of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. One hundred years had passed since the end of World War I, and a family gathered to finally give one soldier his due.

Joseph Lorino was an Italian immigrant from Sicily who left his adopted city of Passaic in 1917 to fight a war for his adopted country and never came home. On Sunday, while President Donald Trump was in Paris to pay tribute to the soldiers who fought in World War I, Lorino’s distant relatives came to St. Mary of the Pines to receive the Purple Heart and other medals, officially ending a 20-year battle with the U.S. government for a soldier who died long ago.