Nana40
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Re: A First For Me....
Happy to say that I finally received that phone call from my local contact on Friday. The report was that the daughter of the soldier was so happy to hear of the military tag find, and that she could hardly wait to have it back in the family!
I got her phone number and called to see when I might return it, but got the answering service. Left my number with her and went on my way to hunt. Hunting at the newest site for a few minutes and the cell rings. It's her! She says she's on her way. Not five minutes later she and her husband pull up and we meet and greet and I hand her the tag. It was a thrill to see how happy that old tag made her. She must have already planned on paying me for it, as the next second she had her other hand coming at me with money in it. And you know, I couldn't even think of taking that money from her. I told her if I took it, I felt like it would take away from the sheer pleasure of my giving her the tag. The tag by the way was her Dad's, from the Korean war.
Also..notice her husband there on the right...well...seems he's one of the hunters from the 70's - 80's era that I am hunting behind! I told him, "Thanks, for leaving me a few bits of goodies to find!" They did offer some great info on sites that Lisa and I are going to look into a bit later.
Nana
Happy to say that I finally received that phone call from my local contact on Friday. The report was that the daughter of the soldier was so happy to hear of the military tag find, and that she could hardly wait to have it back in the family!
I got her phone number and called to see when I might return it, but got the answering service. Left my number with her and went on my way to hunt. Hunting at the newest site for a few minutes and the cell rings. It's her! She says she's on her way. Not five minutes later she and her husband pull up and we meet and greet and I hand her the tag. It was a thrill to see how happy that old tag made her. She must have already planned on paying me for it, as the next second she had her other hand coming at me with money in it. And you know, I couldn't even think of taking that money from her. I told her if I took it, I felt like it would take away from the sheer pleasure of my giving her the tag. The tag by the way was her Dad's, from the Korean war.
Also..notice her husband there on the right...well...seems he's one of the hunters from the 70's - 80's era that I am hunting behind! I told him, "Thanks, for leaving me a few bits of goodies to find!" They did offer some great info on sites that Lisa and I are going to look into a bit later.
Nana