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Last updated on Monday, May 4, 2015
(NEWBURGH) - A southern Indiana man says a sharp-eyed French railroad worker who found and returned his father’s long-lost World War II dog tags “is a special guy.”
The French worker was digging along railroad tracks in Voves, France, when he spotted a glint and dug up the dog tags that Olis Leroy Medcalf had lost while serving in northern France in 1945.
He found a relative of the late Dale, Indiana, man on the Internet and wrote to Paul Medcalf, asking if he was his son.
Medcalf was and the dog tags arrived in the mail at his Newburgh home in late March.
Medcalf tells the Evansville Courier & Press reports the rail worker "is a special guy, with a real consideration of others and respect for the tags."
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