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Military tags found in Vietnam returned to veterans

WHEATON, Illinois (AP) -- V.R. Roskam didn't know anything about the men whose names were stamped on the small, thin pieces of metal. He didn't know one belonged to a young Marine killed by a land mine. Or that one flew off a teenage soldier's neck when he jumped from a helicopter into a firefight.

But Roskam fought in Korea, and the way he saw it, 37 dog tags didn't belong in a wicker basket in some Ho Chi Minh City souvenir stand -- they belonged in the hands of men who lost them fighting the Vietnam War.

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