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The Tin Box That Reunited Two Families After 67 Years
The Tin Box That Reunited Two Families After 67 Years
A sealed ammunition canister hidden on an abandoned Nebraska farm held a 67-year-old photograph and a modern note that finally linked two families across an ocean. The photograph bore a November 1952 inscription in Walter Novak’s handwriting and a second Korean inscription added later - who wrote it, and why was it buried for decades?
In this episode, we follow how a county surveyor found an olive-drab ammo canister wired to a cedar post and how Walter Novak’s granddaughter, Lauren Taylor, unwittingly left the message that led to contact…
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