Fox News: American POW’s Prized Gold Ring Comes Home After He Gave it Away for Food During World War II

What a terrific story! Good for them all.

Cold and hungry, the North Carolinian made a difficult decision. He slipped the gold aviator’s ring — a gift from his POWs Ring Returnsparents — off his finger and passed it through a fence to an Italian POW, who handed back a couple of chocolate bars.

He would never again see the ring. But it did not disappear.

Last week, about a dozen family members and friends gathered in the living room of David C. Cox Jr.’s Raleigh home and watched as he slit open a small yellow parcel from Germany. The 67-year-old son dug through the crinkly packing material and carefully removed a little plastic box.

“And here it is,” he said with a long sigh as he pulled out the ring. “Oh, my goodness. … I never thought it would ever happen. I thought it was gone. We all thought it was gone.

“He thought it was gone,” he said of his late father.

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