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An 80-year-old promise ends with a WWII dog tag's return to Texas

An 80-year-old promise ends with a WWII dog tag's return to Texas
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More than 80 years after two Allied soldiers exchanged military dog tags while imprisoned during World War II, their families reunited in Jacksboro to fulfill a promise neither veteran lived to keep. During World War II, Corporal Mervyn McCready of Australia and Private Garth Oliver of Jacksboro bec

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