Vietnam vet getting dog tag back 48 years later
Posted March 02, 2016 6:00 am
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - An ex-Marine from Connecticut is getting one of his dog tags back, nearly 50 years after losing it during the Vietnam War.
Richard Tilghman Jr., of New Canaan, will receive the tag Thursday morning in New York City during a Fox News show.
Charles Thompson, of Weybridge, England, found Tilghman's tag in October 2014 while vacationing in Vietnam. He says he bought it for about $3 from a man selling war artifacts, with the hope of finding its owner.
Thompson says he determined the tag belonged to Tilghman through Internet searches and contacted him in December.
Tilghman served in Vietnam in 1968 and came home with one of his two tags. He says he doesn't remember losing the one Thompson found.
In this Tuesday, March 1, 2016 photo provided by BNY Mellon, Charles Thompson, left, stands with Vietnam War veteran Richard Tilghman Jr., in New York. Tilghman, of New Canaan, Conn., lost one of his dog tags in the war almost 50 years ago. While vacationing in Vietnam in 2014, Thompson bought a dog tag bearing Tilghman's name from a local vendor selling artifacts from the war. After more than a year of research, he found Tilghman. (Scott Pepper/BNY Mellon via AP)
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