PITTSBURGH (AP) - A chance outing at a Florida flea market led to the reunion between the family of a Korean War veteran in Pennsylvania and their relative's burial flag.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that Cpl. Ralph Fischer's nephew never got a chance to meet his namesake after his uncle was killed during the war in 1951. Fischer had always wondered about his uncle's burial flag. He got an answer from an unlikely place.
Tina Callen and her husband bought a box containing the elder Fischer's burial flag and his Arlington letter while shopping at a Tampa Bay flea market. Callen contacted Lisa Petitta, of Soldiers & Sailors, who was then able to find Fischer through Facebook.
Fischer will receive the flag from Pittsburgh's Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum on Tuesday.
