Helping to Bring Closure: American Couple Finds US Marine Dog Tags in Vietnam and Returns Them to Vets
"It won't bring my son back, but at least he's not forgotten."
According to a FOXNews report, a couple from America, traveling in Vietnam, found dog tags from U.S. Marines for sale in a street shop in Ho Chi Min City.
Martha Roskam, who had accompanied her husband on his business trip to Vietnam, explained, "As any red-blooded American woman would do, I went shopping when my husband was working. I saw a wicker basket with old coins…on top was a green plastic string with 37 dog tags on it. I picked them up in my hands and I felt a profound sense of sadness because I knew what they meant—the only identification these people had in combat."
Martha told her husband about them and he was "incensed," telling her to go back and "get them." The dog tags were being sold for 54 cents apiece.
It has taken Martha and her husband seven years to return most of the dog tags to either the vets who lost them, or their families in the event they'd been killed. One mother reportedly told Martha, "It won't bring my son back, but at least he's not forgotten."
"It's been quite a journey, and a privilege to do this," remarked Martha.
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