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Lost POW/MIA Bracelet Finds Its Way Home After 50 Years
« on: August 13, 2025, 10:38:30 am »
Lost POW/MIA Bracelet Finds Its Way Home After 50 Years
 
The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.) | By Stephanie Earls
Published August 12, 2025 at 1:34pm ET
 

A Vietnam-era POW/MIA bracelet long lost, then found, inspires a mission to set things right after half a century.

A cold call to a mostly forgotten landline finally makes it through, leading to a full-circle moment more complete than anyone imagined.
 
Is it serendipity? Fate? Luck?

“Use whatever flowery, psychic, cosmic words you would choose,” said Dan Rector, his awe palpable through the phone on this early August call. “I’m just amazed at how it worked out.”

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/08/12/lost-pow-mia-bracelet-finds-its-way-home-after-50-years.html
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