For my dog tag to show up after all that time, I consider that remarkable.

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It also came during peacetime, meaning sailors weren't required to wear their dog tag IDs.

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"Any (doubting) thoughts I may have had disappeared immediately when I had the dog tag in my hand, " Mann said.

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LaFollie, 36, told the family she spotted the glinting dog tag among the stalks in her barley field in Parny-Resson, a village next to Rethel on April 22.

WSJ: NY WWII vet receives long-lost dog tag from France

After all, the World War II veteran didn't recall losing a dog tag after landing in Normandy with the 90th Infantry division on D-Day and fighting across Nazi-occupied France.

WSJ: NY WWII vet receives long-lost dog tag from France

It would be like a digital dog tag.

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But nobody took the time to put a tag on this dog, and my point is, that tells you something.

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The dog, on whose collar hung an identification tag, tilted his head and panted as if patiently awaiting an explanation.

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Compared with a goldfish, caring for a dog comes with a big time burden and big price tag.

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The smaller dog a young black lab had a tag that identified her as "Lady" and gave a telephone number in St.

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In 1998 U.S. Postal was a rag tag bunch whose best cyclist, Armstrong, was a cancer survivor and impatient hot dog who had yet to win a multi-stage race of any kind.

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