military jacket found on post-Sandy NJ beach

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1895547_G.jpgRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Donna Gugger's heart was heavy as she sifted through the scattered debris and devastation left by Superstorm Sandy along the Jersey Shore. Pieces of broken furniture. Shards of metal. Chairs ripped off patios. Blue jeans tossed out of bureaus.

But there was something different about that swath of gray cloth with shiny brass buttons. She stopped to take a second look, leaning down to tug on an edge of the fabric that peeked out from under the sand. At first glance, she thought it was an elaborate Halloween costume — a jacket that reminded her of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper.

It was no costume. Gugger had stumbled across an 80-year-old tunic owned by a 1933 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a World War II hero described in his West Point yearbook as a soldier with a "heart like a stormy sea."

The jacket's journey is as mysterious as its history. No one knows how it ended up on the Jersey Shore, hundreds of miles north of the late warrior Chester B. deGavre's home on Virginia's Eastern Shore. His 98-year-old widow, Tita deGavre, didn't even know it existed.

Read More: http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/20225053/lost-military-jacket-found-on-post-sandy-nj-beach
 

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wow - so interesting to think what might have been the articles history and what other things might be out there in private hands
 

A vry cool and Historic Uniform, I wonder if we'll ever know how it ever got to that sandy beach?........
Thanks for sharing.................HH
 

most people dont even know what they have in their own attics....not surprising.....
 

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