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I volunteer a couple of days a week sorting at the 2nd Chance Mission Resale store on Wellborn Road. In May an older man came in hoping that we might still have in the store his military dress uniform that was accidently donated by his family. He had taken it out to be cleaned and worn at the Vietnam Memorial dedication. The bag containing his uniform was mixed up with those to be donated. The man said he was a Vietnam vet. A look through the store did not find the uniform, and there was the possibility it went to the large sorting yard for the mission. I had the man write down his name and number and put it at the front desk. Everyone thought it was a loss cause. About two weeks later I was going through T shirts in the back of the store. In the middle of the T shirts, where it never should have been, was a dress uniform jacket. How it got there, we will never know. The chances of finding it is a little miracle in itself, but the point is I am trying to find the man. The name and address was lost at some point. I was hoping if I could get the right person in College Station to hear this story, we could return the jacket to its rightful owner. Here are the clues: White man in his 70s. Vietnam Vet. Sergeant. Tall and thin. ( He said he would still fit in uniform) I believe he lives locally. Name may be Smith ( that was the name in the uniform)
I volunteer a couple of days a week sorting at the 2nd Chance Mission Resale store on Wellborn Road. In May an older man came in hoping that we might still have in the store his military dress uniform that was accidently donated by his family. He had taken it out to be cleaned and worn at the Vietnam Memorial dedication. The bag containing his uniform was mixed up with those to be donated. The man said he was a Vietnam vet. A look through the store did not find the uniform, and there was the possibility it went to the large sorting yard for the mission. I had the man write down his name and number and put it at the front desk. Everyone thought it was a loss cause. About two weeks later I was going through T shirts in the back of the store. In the middle of the T shirts, where it never should have been, was a dress uniform jacket. How it got there, we will never know. The chances of finding it is a little miracle in itself, but the point is I am trying to find the man. The name and address was lost at some point. I was hoping if I could get the right person in College Station to hear this story, we could return the jacket to its rightful owner. Here are the clues: White man in his 70s. Vietnam Vet. Sergeant. Tall and thin. ( He said he would still fit in uniform) I believe he lives locally. Name may be Smith ( that was the name in the uniform)