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The Discharge Paper in the Culvert That Erased a Family's Map
The Discharge Paper in the Culvert That Erased a Family's Map
A damp Army separation document found in a drainage culvert named Crestline, Missouri as Harold Eugene Pruitt’s home of record - a town no one in his family had ever heard of. The paper survived 73 years in a waterproof sleeve and set off a chain of documents, a DNA match, and a diner meeting that unraveled what everyone thought they knew; how did a postal worker buried in Indiana end up tied to a Missouri town no one remembers?
In this episode, we follow the discovery of the July 14, 1946 discharge paper and the small clues that…
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