Subdeacon Joe Posted May 11, 2014 Posted May 11, 2014 World War II medal of Nebraska man turns up in Vermont maple tree Volunteers for Vermont’s annual Green Up Day made an odd discovery when they looked inside a maple tree: wrapped in plastic inside an old VCR cassette was the World War II Good Conduct Medal for a Nebraska man who died 32 years ago. The 1945 medal had belonged to Robert Gene Woody, who served on the USS Hughes, a Navy destroyer that saw action at the Battle of Midway and Guadalcanal. The medal turned up in the town of Milton. The cassette in the tree was also hiding a treasure trove of copper coins and other military medals -- a Veterans of Foreign Wars medal from the 1930s, a Spanish American War medal, a woman's Relief Corps medal and a Civil War pay stub for Pvt. Lewis N. Lucas of the Vermont 2nd Light Artillery. Price stickers were attached to the medals.
Subdeacon Joe Posted May 11, 2014 Author Posted May 11, 2014 Weird. I know I am! Thank you for noticing.
Buckhorn Bud Posted May 12, 2014 Posted May 12, 2014 I'm goin with stolen and stashed. That was my first thought.
Buck N Bronco Posted May 12, 2014 Posted May 12, 2014 Sounds like a “geocaching” stash which are usually inexpensive but interesting little items that are wrapped and protected from the weather then buried or stashed away in public areas. The GPS coordinates are published and folks can do a bit of treasure hunting as they hike or travel. It seems to be a worldwide thing, particularly here in the US. See www.geocaching.com for details. The website claims there are currently over 2,388,962 little treasures stashed away and waiting to be discovered.
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