Memorial Day Miracle: Long-lost Dog Tag Returned to WWII Vet Who Lost it in France

In this Wednesday, May 22, 2013 photo, World War II veteran Irving Mann poses for a photo with his dog tag that was found and returned to him, in Rochester, N.Y. Mann says he was skeptical when an email from a French woman recently arrived at his Rochester jewelry store. She said she’d found the tag in her barley field and was looking for its owner. (AP Photo/David Duprey)

A long-lost and long-forgotten dog tag, which has spent the past 69 years in a farm field in France, has returned to the hands of the western New York veteran who lost it.