🏆 HONORABLE MENTION Good deed for a veteran

[Joe-Dirt]

I was contacted through one of my clubs to assist a gentleman( mike)to find a medallion he had lost. When I met up with him, he told me a very moving story of how it became lost. In March of 1970 his brother was doing his second combat tour in Vietnam, him and his platoon had just cleared a small village they were taking small arms fire from and they were pushing down a small road, his friends M60 had jammed and when he went to clear the weapon it discharged into the ground and the bullet ricocheted off a rock killing him instantly. After his funeral service in April of 1970 Mike buried a saint Christopher medal in the freshly covered grave and forgot about it. Now that mike is getting older, he wanted to tie up loose ends and make a display for his kids and grandkids of his brothers military honors and memorabilia and he contacted me. Anyway, when I met him, we went to the grave ( with permission) and started our search. He had told me that the metal govt’ issue casket was only 4’ down and it really gave off a strong signal on my equinox making it difficult to pin point anything. So after exploring a few isolated high tones I finally found it and handed it to mike and I could see he was visibly moved. He was extremely grateful and offered to buy me lunch, which I declined ( my wife had a list for me) but I did give him a business card and let him know if I can ever help again, just call.

 

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[Terry Soloman]

Honorable Mention vote! Good on you!

 

[Digger RJ]

I was contacted through one of my clubs to assist a gentleman( mike)to find a medallion he had lost. When I met up with him, he told me a very moving story of how it became lost. In March of 1970 his brother was doing his second combat tour in Vietnam, him and his platoon had just cleared a small village they were taking small arms fire from and they were pushing down a small road, his friends M60 had jammed and when he went to clear the weapon it discharged into the ground and the bullet ricocheted off a rock killing him instantly. After his funeral service in April of 1970 Mike buried a saint Christopher medal in the freshly covered grave and forgot about it. Now that mike is getting older, he wanted to tie up loose ends and make a display for his kids and grandkids of his brothers military honors and memorabilia and he contacted me. Anyway, when I met him, we went to the grave ( with permission) and started our search. He had told me that the metal govt’ issue casket was only 4’ down and it really gave off a strong signal on my equinox making it difficult to pin point anything. So after exploring a few isolated high tones I finally found it and handed it to mike and I could see he was visibly moved. He was extremely grateful and offered to buy me lunch, which I declined ( my wife had a list for me) but I did give him a business card and let him know if I can ever help again, just call.

Very Nice!!! Good Job!!! Congrats!!!

 

[BLK HOLE]

Bravo Zulu!!!

 

[xr7ator]

Excellent!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Outstanding !

 

[Gare]

Joe Thank you for helping him. you are my kind of person

 

[Hangman]

Thank you for taking care of a brother in arms.

 

[Gare]

Joe I have a question for you. When trying to find that medal and having issues with with the casket. Did you try reducing your sensitivity a little ?
A lot of times if i am looking for a recently lost ring i reduce my sensitivity so i only find shallow. Maybe if you backed the sensitivity down a bit you might have eliminated the coffin

 

[angelito1]

Nicely done...Good on you !!

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Gare, I did knock it down to 19 but I had my 15” coil on my equinox so I just listened for variations in tone of the casket. The casket was like having really really loud threshold on if that makes sense

 

[RustyGold]

Great story! Congratulations on finding the
St. Christopher.