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Retired Army decorated veteran Phillip Schladweiler of Beloit has a purple heart for heroism after being wounded during combat in Iraq in 2006.   But veterans officials told him Schladweiler’s marriage is something he cannot hold onto. Schladweiler, 28, and his wife Lyandra Marotz were married in a ceremony in Grandby, Colorado in May 2009 during a retreat for war veterans.

But in correspondence dated Sept. 11, Department of Veteran Affairs manager C.C. Norton wrote Schladweiler his marriage was invalid because Marotz divorced her previous husband in Illinois on January 26, less than six months before her marriage to Schladweiler. Wisconsin law bars residents from marrying less than six months after a divorce.

Source: http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11276686#