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Woman Flies To St. Augustine To Surprise POW With Bracelet She Wore For Him As A Child

Michael Isam

  A bracelet was all it took to bring two strangers from different ends of the country together on Saturday, according to a story from the St. Augustine Record.

Peggy Cornacchio of Massachusetts wore the bracelet as a child to honor a U.S. prisoner of war fighting in Vietnam (similar bracelets were worn by many during the war), even though she had never met the man whose name her bracelet bore: Navy pilot Giles Norrington. 

After recently finding the bracelet she had long ago packed away, Cornacchio set out to discover what had happened to Norrington:

She searched the Internet and found he was alive, living in Florida and scheduled to speak Saturday night in St. Augustine at the annual awards dinner for the Chase-Rescorla Scholarship. She felt like she needed to give him the bracelet. “I thought he’s got to be getting up there,” she said. “If I don’t do this now, it’s not going to happen.”

Read the the whole story at the St. Augustine Record's site.

Sean Birch joined the WJCT team in late 2011 and was with the company until 2016.