The family of a Vietnam War veteran has been reunited with a piece of their loved one’s history that was lost in a rice field 57 years ago.
The late U.S. Marine Cpl. Larry Hughes lost his dog tag while serving in Da Nang in 1966. Decades later, on a Vietnam field trip with 20 University of Notre Dame students in October 2022, professor Michael Desch and Jim Webb, a former Virginia senator and ex-Marine, ran into a local farmer who approached them with the lost tag.
“[The farmer] said he had found this dog tag when he was working his fields,” Desch told The Epoch Times. “We decided if we could get him to part with it, it would be neat to bring it home and see if we could find the Marine who lost it, or his family.”…