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  • Minn. man finds Vietnam-era dog tag of Wis. Marine

    05/10/2009 11:00:05 AM PDT · by JoeProBono · 4 replies · 605+ views
    chicagotribune ^ | May 10, 2009
    SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - A Sheboygan-area man has been reunited with the dog tag he lost more than 40 years ago while serving with the Marines in Vietnam. Mike Hiebing says he's grateful to the Minnesota man who found the military ID recently while on business in Hanoi. The 68-year-old Hiebing says it brings tears to his eyes to have it back. The man who sent it to him is Chuck Peterson of Lake Bronson, Minn. The 54-year-old saw a street vendor wearing a necklace fashioned from a dog tag, and found that inappropriate.
  • After 66 Years, Veteran Reunited With Dog Tag

    03/05/2009 3:44:51 PM PST · by Pyro7480 · 12 replies · 745+ views
    NPR ^ | 3/4/2009 | n/a
    A week ago, 19-year-old Sydney Rector of the Bronx went to a music store in Midtown Manhattan with her boyfriend, Stevin Tyska. When they left, they were playing around in a tunnel between 48th and 47th streets — and that's where they stumbled across a 66-year-old dog tag. "It's a plastic tunnel and above you there's a waterfall," Rector tells NPR's Robert Siegel. "So you see the water falling on you; it's pretty cool. We were walking through, dancing around, being stupid, and my boyfriend saw something sticking out. And we always just mess with stuff, you know. We saw...