Lost Wallet got it back after 53 years
Paul Grisham is 91-year-old, who worked as a US Navy meteorologist. As a part of services, he was sent to Antarctica in October 1967 for 13-month assignment of Operation Deep Freeze. He worked as a weather forecaster which supported civilian scientists doing research there. During this time, he lost his brown wallet and he forgot about that.
Then he was getting an assignment in San Diego, California, and later was assigned to an aircraft carrier in Vietnam. He retired in 1977 after 25 years of service.
A research group that does snow cap research in Antarctica. They found a couple of wallets during the demolition of a building at McMurdo station on Ross Island in 2014. George Blaisdell, head of the research group, mailed his former employee Stephen Decato, about the wallets. Because he had successfully handed over the ID bracelet to his owner.
A team of detectives Stephen Decato and his daughter Sarah Lindbergh, from US’s New Hampshire, and Bruce McKee of the NGO Indiana Spirit of ’45 -- to track down Grisham. Lindbergh reached out to McKee, who contacted Gary Cox of the Naval Weather Service Association, of which Grisham is a member.
The wallet finally arrived in good condition at Grisham's home in San Carlos, northern California. It contained his navy ID card, driving licence, a pocket reference card on what to do during atomic, biological and chemical attack, a beer ration punch card, a tax withholding statement and receipts for money orders sent to his wife. It brought all his old memories back.
- Till now there are three lost items are returned to their owners by this detective team.
- They first successfully reunited a stolen Navy ID bracelet spotted for sale in a store with its rightful owner.
- Secondly, they returned the wallet found with Paul Grisham wallet, belonged to a man named Paul Howard who died in 2016, but his family was grateful to receive it.
- Paul Grisham wallet is the third lost Navy item.
- Mr. McKee, who served in the Airforce, and lost everything in the flood during 2008. This brought an interest to him to send back lost items to their owners.
- Mr. McKee is trying to find the owner of two items: a dog tag found by a Naval contractor and a Gideon Bible from World War II.
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