Saturday, June 9, 2007

Neat Story

A veteran lost his watch nearly 90 years ago, during World War I. He lost the watch in France where he was serving inthe Army. Another man won it in a poker game and brought it back to South Dakota. Because it had an engraving on the back, he searched to no avail to find the owner. After he died, his son enlisted the aid of a genealogist. In April, she located the veteran's grandson in Springfield, Missouri. The grandson and his brother reclaimed the watch Wednesday at the American Legion Post 1981 in Sioux City, Iowa. Their grandfather had died in 1962. Words could not express how they felt to hold their grandfather's watch in their hands. Neat story, huh and a true one.

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