A Priceless Treasure From WWII

Valerie Winans
Nov 8 · 3 min read

It’s old and worn and has little intrinsic value. The pendant is shaped in the form of the letter V with a ship’s anchor cradled in the arm of the angle. On the anchor are the letters USN. The pendant was made in honor of the day that the United States achieved victory over Japan in August 1945. The USN in the center is for United States Navy. The V is embedded with small marcasite stones that are almost the same color as the metal…

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Valerie Winans

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Author of Alaska’s Savage River and Road Trip with Remington Beagle. Member of Author Masterminds and Readers and Writers Book Club.

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