A 91-year-old man in the US was very surprised to find out that someone recently returned his wallet he had lost more than five decades ago, all the way in Antarctica. The netizens and Paul Grisham are delighted alike with this sweet reunion.
A wallet which was recovered in Antartica contained Grisham’s Navy ID, his driver’s license, a tax withholding statement, a recipe for homemade Kahlua among other things.
It is learnt that US Navy meteorologist Paul Grisham spent a year monitoring weather conditions on the frigid continent in 1967. He worked as a weather forecaster for a science station and airport on Ross Island then. He had stayed there for 13 months. However, he realized that he had misplaced his wallet somewhere after he returned to California.
Stephen Decato, who formerly worked for an agency that does snow cap research in Antarctica, and Bruce McKee of the Indiana Spirit of ’45 nonprofit foundation found the wallet and thus Grishman got his wallet back after 53 years.
It is reported that the two wallets were recently uncovered behind a locker during the demolition of a building at McMurdo Station, the southernmost town on Earth.
McKee, a US Air Force veteran from the nonprofit foundation, reached out to the Naval Weather Service Association for help finding the owners of the wallets. Fortunately, the reunion was possible as Grisham is a member of the organization.
It is reported that the recovered wallet could be returned to Grisham as it still contained Grisham’s Navy ID, his driver’s license, a tax withholding statement, a recipe for homemade Kahlua among other things.
Grisham told that he can’t even remember losing his wallet on the continent he referred to as ‘The Ice’, but is grateful for the efforts that went in to return the item. “I was just blown away,” Grisham told the local news outlet. “There was a long series of people involved who tracked me down and ran me to ground,” he added.
“Something such as an old wallet can mean so much to someone with the memories that item holds,” McKee told the news outlet, that being a veteran himself he loves to keep doing things for those who have served in the military.
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