Fond du Lac owners in search of Military veteran

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (WBAY) – A Fond du Lac home-owner is on the hunt to search out an Military veteran. The search started after the person and his girlfriend uncovered a decades-old piece of army memorabilia of their residence.

Shane Gomez and his girlfriend not too long ago purchased the home at 357 Sherman Road in Fond du Lac.

The couple spends their free time engaged on residence renovation initiatives, and whereas they have been engaged on the upstairs portion of the home this previous weekend, they found a bit of piece of historical past.

“My girlfriend, she was messing with the cupboards down there, and I suppose nobody had ever actually bothered to look down there and we discovered that, we discovered an previous document,” stated Gomez.

Tucked beneath the underside drawer of a built-in corridor cupboard was a army certificates that was issued to James C. Bostwick on October 1, 1959.

The Honorable Discharge Certificates says he enlisted within the Military in September of 1951, and entered the reserves lower than two years later.

“My late grandpa, he was a veteran again then. I figured, it form of spoke to me. I’m positive any individual’s grandpa was James Bostwick and possibly they wish to have it as a token, memento, some form of heirloom of kinds,” says Gomez.

He posted in regards to the certificates on a Fond du Lac group Fb web page, hoping to search out somebody who is aware of this soldier, including, “It is going to be fairly shocking. I noticed numerous Bostwicks tagging one another and the title, within the feedback, so if I handle to search out who it belongs to, that will probably be spectacular.”

Till then, he’ll simply hold the certificates for secure preserving and possibly perform a little analysis on its recipient after he finishes the house initiatives.

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