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I'm not so sure that holding off on telling the family that you found his dogtags is a very nice thing to do.
01/27/2005 2005
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It was littered with booklets, jewellry, someone's dogtags from the army, a handkerchief with initials, a pair of glasses, all labelled with little white tags with a name on them.
Belle's story part 3 nathreee 2010
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I had a dogtag made with a picture of the kids on it, that he added to his dogtags.
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The U.S. military still stamps your religion on your dogtags, and it must be intolerable to many to be shot by people who are clearly labeled Methodist or Catholic or Jewish.
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He also has pictures, and a flight angel his AF grandpa gave him, as well as one of his Dad's dogtags.
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Realizing that Max has betrayed them, they remove their dogtags and throw them into the wreckage, and thus the Losers are born.
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Taken prisoner, Vietnamese soldiers placed his dogtags on a dead soldier, resulting in him being "KIA".
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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“Logan” was on his dogtags because his real father was called Thomas Logan.
“X-Men Origins: Wolverine” worst of the comic book series so far » Scene-Stealers 2009
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Who, through the good offices of a current phone number on his dogtags, was prompty restored to his own side, although we considered a firing squad.
Today's heartwarming story matociquala 2009
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When he wakes up after being shot by Stryker and reads his dogtags, Wolverine and Logan are written there, so he just goes by the name Logan as his first name, which was actually his surname.
“X-Men Origins: Wolverine” worst of the comic book series so far » Scene-Stealers 2009
amacleod03 commented on the word dogtags
Metal identification tags worn on a chain around the neck by members of the armed forces.
Identification tags for the armed forces of the U.S. came into prominence in the Civil War. The first metal “identity discs�? were issued in 1906, and by 1913 the Army made ID tags mandatory. In 1916, a second tag was added, and by 1917 all combat troops had aluminum ID tags hanging from their necks on either a rope or chain. Still used today, they come in twos so that one can be buried with the soldier and one can be sent home to the family. By World War II, the circular disc was replaced by the oblong shape familiar to us now, generally referred to as “dog tags.�? (Wooley, Richard W. . 1988. A Short History of Identification Tags. Quartermaster Professional Bulletin. Accessed May 30 2006 from http:// www.qmfound.com/ short_history_of_ identification_tags.htm.)
July 11, 2009