Wallet Stolen 30 Years Ago Returned To Man

[matcom]

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SPRING HILL — Robert McArtor called it a ''phenomenon.''

His wife, Catherine, called it divine intervention.

McArtor's wallet was stolen nearly 30 years ago while he was working in Colorado. Last week, it was returned it to him after a contractor discovered it in the wall of a building while installing windows.

The dark leather wallet was full of old family photographs, $7 cash and a thick stack of credit cards and business cards. The people who found it also found a note inside that led them to the McArtors.

The couple's daughter, Beverly Kassis, wrote the note when she was about 6 years old.

''I love you mother and father,'' the note said. ''You are good pairint's and as I said I love you, Love Beverly.''

http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/04/11/62043908.shtml?Element_ID=62043908

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. I want to know how it got in that wall...

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[stevedeshazer]

2. My old wallet story is older than your old wallet story

Old soldier's lost wallet turns up after 60 years

KALAMA -- Bob Mahaffey's wallet is stuffed with a host of credit cards, plastic emblems of the world he now inhabits. When he was 18 in 1945, his wallet was also stuffed with cards, but like his military ration card, all were made of paper.

That wallet -- stolen from him 60 years ago -- recently turned up and with it came a wave of memories.

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It was the wallet Mahaffey lost when he pulled in $60 a month working his way through 17 weeks of U.S. Army basic training at Camp Roberts, according to a report published in The Oregonian newspaper.

The camp, which sprawls across more than 42,000 acres of grassy hills and dusty parade grounds near Paso Robles in Central California, was one of the world's largest military training facilities during World War II, housing 45,000 troops at its peak in 1945.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/201446_wallet27ww.html

[Devil Dog Dem]

3. Not as dramatic, but my father found my lost wallet from 10 years ealier

I lost in high school, right before I went into the Marines. He found it in the seat of his car he was about to sell (it was old then!) and sent it to me. It had ix of my girlfriend, my highschool ID, driver's license, phone numbers, etc.

It was a trip!

[arwalden]

4. My Uncle Had His Wallet Returned Over 5 Years After His Canoe Accident...

... he was using an old ammo box as his dry storage during his canoe trip, in which he kept his wallet, matches, cigarettes, eyeglasses, and a dry pair of socks and underwear. When he capsized in some rapid waters, his canoe flooded and was "horseshoed" around some rocks... split in half and all the goodies go down river.

The dry ammo box was found about five years later, and about 100 miles down river. The father of the young boy who found it telephoned my uncle to confirm the address, and my uncle told them to use the cash for postage and to keep the rest of the cash as a reward for the boy.

The father said he'd pay for postage out of my uncle's money, but that he would return the rest because he wanted to teach his son that the "reward" was in being honest... and in the good feeling of knowing that he did the right thing... NOT in the cash.

Pretty cool! That was about 20 years ago, and my uncle still retells that story every once and awhile.

[stupid grin]

5. Well I lost my wallet

this morning, but I found it an hour later, it was jammed between my van seats. It was amazing to find it after all that time, you know? I just sat there and teared up flipping through all my old pictures.

[underpants]

6. I lost a wallet once and they formed a search party to find me

The Sheriff called my Mom to tell her that they hadn't found me and she informed them that I was at college.

The Sheriff never bothered to find out if I was actually missing or had just lost my wallet.