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These are dog tags from World War II and you are going to help me return them to its rightful family. As always I have to give a quick history fact. You might be wondering why soldiers were given two dog tags instead of one. This started around World War I and basically if someone were to die during combat, one dog tag would stay on the remains, the other one would basically be to mark the coffin. Now let's get into this. So that number would be the serial number and then the name under it would either be his wife or mother. So I'm just gonna assume it's his wife. So here I'll search John with the wife of Marie. So here I don't see any wives with the name Marie, but I see a lot of mothers with the name Marie. And this address looks very familiar because it is the exact address on that dog tag. So now we can confirm this is the right person, his mother was named Marie. Now we have a census record which is great. So I can see in the 1950 census record after the war he was still living at home with his parents and he was 36 years old, never married. At this time this was very unusual. I mean yeah the fact that he's single is unusual, but more so the fact that he is still living at home with his parents and he is 36 years old in 1950. This leads me to believe there's probably a medical reason why he is still at home. The reason I'm assuming that is because with all of my other cases where I have seen men living at home after the war with their parents, usually it is for a medical reason where they need their parents to take care of them. Now I'm not saying that's the reason, but let's look into this further. Here is his World War 2 enlistment information. This is the same serial number that we see on that dog tag, so I know this is the right person. I see a World War 2 hospital admission here and it is for dementia praecox. It also says here paranoid type. When I Google that, the more modern term is schizophrenia. And it says here he was discharged for disability. I do see here that he did live until 1974, but I don't see any children here. However, that does not mean we can't return these dog tags to someone within the family. I messaged a few owners of public family trees and I'll do a part 2 if someone responds.