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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Chip Kirkpatrick, post: 7881980, member: 101265&quot;]A couple of years ago this POW-MIA bracelet from the Vietnam War was found while metal detecting. I offer a free service for finding and returning lost items and have 34 returns to date. The first was on Panama City Beach where I found a man’s wedding ring valued at over $8000.&nbsp; It turned out he had just gotten married the night before and his bride was taking a nap so his buddies convinced him to sneak off to the beach with them and he promptly lost that ring. Always wondered what his honeymoon would be like had he returned without the ring. He offered me a $20 reward which I turned down and offered him $50 if I could keep the ring. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another time a man called me crying because his 48th anniversary was coming up and he had lost his ring. Took 2 days to find and as a thank you I was granted permission to hunt a large tract of land his father bought 80 years before. While searching I found a second ring that looked like the first ring so I called his wife and asked if she had lost her ring. She said no but her husband had lost his ring. I replied I had already found that ring and she then told me I had found his SECOND&nbsp; ring but his first was lost 30+ years before. So he got a “Two-fer” out of me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Almost every object I’ve ever recovered for somebody had a sad story but I really wanted to return this bracelet to the next of kin and I thought it would be easy to learn who that was. NOPE! The new privacy laws make it virtually impossible. I called the VA and was shot down on several levels. I called congresspeople and got nowhere, including one I went to high school with. The mayor of my town got the mayor of Indianapolis to assign somebody to help me. They never answered the phone nor returned calls.</p><p><br /></p><p>The soldier was 19 years old and killed his first day in Vietnam. His body was identified but left behind and never recovered. He was part of a story on POW-MIAs in Time magazine. </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally I started blindly sending letters to people with the same last name and finally hooked up with his sister. She was strangely suspicious of me and my motives but eventually gave me an address to send it to. It arrived just before Memorial Day but I’ve never heard from anybody. But that’s ok. </p><p><br /></p><p>Those are great remembrances you have there. And today, 9/11 is a day to remember[ATTACH=full]1359305[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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