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Veterans

sinkingfeeling

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1. Please keep us posted on this story. I am the 'keeper" of the WWII footlocker, Purple Heart and death certificates

Reply to rzemanfl (Original post)

Wed Apr 3, 2024, 02:55 PM

Apr 2024

signed by FDR, and letters home from my uncle. He was killed in Italy 1944 and is buried there. I have no idea what will happen to these things when i pass on.

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I am related by marriage to this soldier's family. [View all] rzemanfl Apr 2024 OP

Please keep us posted on this story. I am the 'keeper" of the WWII footlocker, Purple Heart and death certificates sinkingfeeling Apr 2024 #1

I will. rzemanfl Apr 2024 #2

There are many military museums soldierant Apr 2024 #3