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Originally Posted by Snapolit1
I'd call. Even if you get a family member and he is deceased, when you explain the circumstances I'd think they'd likely get a real kick out of it. If collecting brought grandpa joy you might be on the phone for an hour hearing stories. I'd do it. If someone did something like involving my father I'd love it.
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Completely +1 agree.
My dad spent WW2 in the Army, wounded (Purple Heart) in the Battle of the Bulge. Stateside, before shipping out for Europe, my dad was good friends with another guy in the unit. Lots of photos together. Once, after I was old enough to know what was what, I asked, "What happened to him, Dad?" "His troop ship was torpedoed, and he didn't make it" Well, in 2007, before I retired from the Navy, I looked up McVicker in Barton, Maryland. Sure enough, there was one. I called, and it was his niece. She was in her 80s, and remembered her Uncle Les. She was in tears. I made professional duplicates of my dad's photos and sent them to her. I still occasionally get email from her daughter.
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