Of all types of war memorabilia, dog tags are perhaps the most common, and the most valued by families. They are small, yet representative of a man's time with the military, especially if they fought in wars like Vietnam or World War II.
Sometimes, this memorabilia is all that a family has left of a brother, a father, or a grandfather.
But it's not uncommon for these small trinkets to get lost, either in a family's belongings, or even very far away, like in a thrift shop! One couple, for example, unknowingly purchased a soldier's Purple Heart for less than $5!
That couple was able to track down the soldier's family soon enough, but one Long Island woman spent 50 years of her life searching for the family of the soldier whose dog tags she found on the beach as a little girl.
Laurie Lubin searched every record and phone book, and even hired a researcher to help her find the family of cavalryman Irving Isaacs. She spent all those years contacting family after family, some of which were based on the other side of the country!
But she had no idea that she personally knew the people she was looking for.
In fact, she had been within the apartment complex where the soldier's children lived when her husband visited his children from a previous marriage. Irving's daughter, Audrey Berk, says that she knew Laurie's husband's whole family!
Now, the dog tags are safely in her hands.
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