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The Soldier Who Came Home Wearing His Brother's Face
The Soldier Who Came Home Wearing His Brother's Face
Fear and disbelief arrive in ordinary mail: a wartime kit bag labeled PFC DUANE REED pulled from a river in 2003 contained a sealed portrait of a young man whose unscarred jaw would unravel a fifty-year family secret - why was the photo of Warren Tate filed under Duane Reed? Who carried whose name into Korea, and what did that cost a family?
In this episode, we follow the chain from a fisherman's line to a preservation office and a volunteer archivist, tracing how a wax-paper portrait mailed to a mailbox in Carver Falls reopened questions…
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