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WWI dog tags returned to man's family
Ken Parmelee of Santa Fe said he received a phone call in March from Jim Walters, a California newspaper editor and Parmelee family genealogist, saying a man named Jim Wood had discovered dog tags belonging to Parmelee's father while cleaning out the Big Spring, Texas, estate of his maiden aunt, the (Santa Fe) New Mexican reported.
Parmelee said Wood sent him the U.S. Army tags, which are imprinted with "Republique Francaise" on one side and Kenneth A. Parmelee's name on the other. The tags also bear the number 773238 and the letters AEF, which stand for Allied Expeditionary Force.
"It was just an amazing thing to think that this thing is 90 years old and that it survived 90 years and somehow came back around to me," Ken Parmelee said.
He said he does not know how the tags wound up in Texas or whether his father had ever met Wood's aunt.
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This news arrived on: 10/13/2009
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