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November 10, 2009

Lost In Action: An Update

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LOST IN ACTION: AN UPDATE

A couple of years ago, Dick spoke with Marshall Anderson about his father's best story from World War II. It involved losing a treasured class ring on the battlefield. Many years later, long after his father had died, Marshall came home to a message on his answering machine: the ring Marshall's dad had lost nearly 60 years earlier was found. Marshall has since visited the battleground in Germany, and seen what he thinks may be the exact spot where the ring was lost.

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