Lost and Found

I like this.
Ten years ago, when my husband and I got married, he lost his dog tags. On the chain was his wedding ring. He lost it when we were at a local creek, when he jumped off of the falls. He was so upset that he couldn't find it. He spent hours in and out of the water trying to locate his ring and chain.
Last month, my husband was contacted by Jason Cook, of Habitat for Humanity, in San Antonio, Texas. Jason had been given a dresser. When he pulled out one of the drawers, my husband's dog tags and ring fell out. Somebody had found them when the creek ran dry, put the items in their dresser, and a decade later, donated them. Somehow, they wound up hundreds of miles away.
Anyway, it was pretty cool how that happened, and the fact that somebody so far away took the time to look my husband up was pretty awesome...to reunite him with those tags and inexpensive little wedding ring.

My hands tend to swell with the humidity and shrink when cold. Over the course of my 28 years of marriage, my rink has slipped off my finger three times and it has turned up each time. The first was at Simmons Army Airfield when it fell off while driving. I searched the side of the road, but couldn't find it. A week later, my wife found it in the back seat where it had been blown when it fell off my finger. The second time it fell off when I took my glove off while taking the kids into daycare. It ended up dropping into my son's book bag. The third time, it fell off in the gravel walkway on Camp Lundell (the ETT portion of the FOB at Tarin Kowt). I looked for days without success. One morning, on my way back from breakfast, I dropped my pen in the walkway. When I bent down to pick it up...there was my ring. I guess this is a sign that I am destine to stay married.

Here is one posted on Facebook and I'm passing along. It is a Navy ring found in Dinwiddie, Virginia. The initials are "LEY 73" and it has the number 432 on one of the sides.

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