In a message dated 11/9/99 5:55:31 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > What year was the discharge? > If it was WWII and the person was from Mecklenburg County. > I do know that after WWII most returning men from Mecklenburg > County had their discharges copied by Mecklenburg County. I > still have the wallet size that they gave me for doing this. > I do not know where these files are now, but do know that a > large number of the veterans had theirs copied and put on file. > My files were burned in 73 in St Louis, took me more than 18 > months to obtain my service medals, they had to go back and > rebuild my files using other files in the system. > Just had these service medals and other stuff such as buttons > insignia, patches, stripes, overseas bars all from the uniform > I was discharged in mounted. Made a nice display for my ggrand > kids. > > Bill Navey > Bill, the discharge was for WWII but the county he lived in at his return was Moore County, NC. I know that he was in Rome for the better part of the war and did get a Purple Heart for injuries he received - he laughed a great deal about the circumstances that surrounded that honor and said that it never should have happened - he was fishing in Rome and caught his big toe with a fishing hook! So he did spill blood on foreign soil but wow what a hilarious cause! I do have his family Bible and it does list his leaves and discharge date. None of this seems to matter as the official source granting records wants a copy of his discharge papers ("both sides") knowing full well that it has been 50 years since they were issued and that their copy was destroyed in the fire. Any advice on whom I might contact in Moore County to see is such a record exists there? Pat