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104-year-old man receives brother’s WWII dog tag 83 years after his death

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104-year-old man receives brother’s WWII dog tag 83 years after his death
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A 104-year-old Massachusetts woman was reunited with the military dog tags of her brother, who died in a 1943 plane crash during World War II. The tags were discovered by local veterans' services officials who spent years tracking down the surviving family.

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This story highlights the ongoing efforts of veterans' organizations to provide closure to families of fallen soldiers decades after their service.

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A 104-year-old woman in Massachusetts has received her brother's military identification tags 83 years after he died in a plane crash during World War II. Dorothy Stewart, who was 21 when her brother Bernard Parnell died in 1943, was reunited with his dog tags at a ceremony held at a YMCA last month.According to CBS Boston, the identification tags were found among old military records at Beverly Veterans' Services. Officials did not know how they had reached the office, but spent several years trying to locate Parnell's surviving family members. Their search eventually led them to Stewart, who was still living in Beverly.For Stewart, the discovery brought back memories of her brother, whose body was never recovered after the aircraft crashed off the Florida coast. Speaking to CBS Boston, she recalled his appearance and popularity when he was young. "First off he was handsome.

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