# Veterans - still got your dog tags? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 2, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289 "2013-12-02T15:20:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/21 "2013-12-03T05:10:09Z")
Discharged in 1964, got the originals, 186396xx, can say it frontwards & backwards, remember the Ser # of my first issued Weapon, M1, number of eyelets in boots low quarters. Code of conduct & chain of command meant nothing in my first year, don’t want KP or butt patrol, better know the above at anytime the CO or First Shirt asked, not just at inspections, How many panes of glass in the barracks, that one put a lot of guys on KP. We learned to be very observant & that actually helped me much during my service. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/22 "2013-12-03T05:20:06Z")
I didn’t vote, but my father still has them, Vietnam '68-'69, IIRC. He wasn’t even an American when he got sucked into the war (moved over here from Poland about a year previous.) ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/23 "2013-12-03T15:55:22Z")
I voted other because while I"m not a veteran, I have my dad’s dogtags from WWII. So he kept them, along with his footlocker, his entire uniform, and his discharge papers, a diary, and two albums filled with photographs that he took during his tour of duty. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/24 "2013-12-03T19:00:09Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Wow. That is cool. And weird. I know that there has been an active market in forged dog tags over there, as they know that American visitors will purchase them. But this one had my original service number and religious preference on it. I’m not sure how someone could have obtained that information. And it just looked like it had been lying in the dirt for 30-40 years. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/25 "2013-12-03T21:08:44Z")
I have a military keepsakes box up in the attic. My original smartbook from Basic. Stuff from Desert Storm. Medals/Ribbons, etc. I’m pretty sure my dog tags are in that box. ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/26 "2013-12-03T22:20:08Z")
Yes. In a file cabinet. Unfortunately they are coded for Protestant and I’m not. ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/27 "2013-12-04T03:02:14Z")
I asked my BF, he said no, but he still has his cunt cap. I don’t want to talk to him anymore tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/28 "2013-12-04T03:09:32Z")
I thought we had to give them up upon discharge, as I don’t recall keeping them. If that’s not the case, they were pulverized by me in the most violent and abusive method possible and tossed into the fiery pit of Hell with prejudice. It was the least I could do. ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/29 "2013-12-04T07:59:07Z")
I still have mine. They’re around the neck of a wooden statue that I picked up in Haiti on R&R in 1970 while stationed in Guantanamo Bay. My younger son wears my father’s dog tags from WWII. Mine are aluminum while my Dad’s are brass. (at least I think they are. mine are silver, Dad’s are gold ) ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2013, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/30 "2013-12-04T08:20:54Z")
I need to go scratch mine. I think they are soft SS, not brass or AL. Hummmm ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/31 "2013-12-08T21:24:16Z")
I know I have one tucked in a box of little odds and ends. The other I gave to a young lady 21 years ago now… We are still friends, I’ll bet she has it. When she comes to town later this month at Christmas, I’ll try to remember to ask. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/32 "2013-12-09T00:19:44Z")
My husband was in the reserves and got out in 1968. I think his dog tags are somewhere around the house. ---
**Author:** ![SanDiegoTim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/33 "2013-12-09T01:53:53Z")
Still have the pair issued to me in '69, as well as my father’s from WWII. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/34 "2013-12-09T02:13:04Z")
I don’t think my father kept his. When he died, I found his discharge papers but no dog tags. He was in the Army for I believe two years from about 1950-52 (but stayed stateside and was not sent to Korea) and died in 1999. ---
**Author:** ![Cell\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Cell\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cell_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/35 "2013-12-09T03:38:27Z")
Hanging on the wall, framed with my dad’s (Vietnam), my grandpa’s (WW2) and my great-grandpa’s (WW1). My parents had it done a few years ago. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/36 "2013-12-09T03:56:27Z")
“Other”: Never had any, as the stamping machine was OOC when I went through boot camp. > [@Cell\_Guy](#): > > Hanging on the wall, framed with my dad’s (Vietnam), my grandpa’s (WW2) and my great-grandpa’s (WW1). My parents had it done a few years ago. Nice. I like that. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/37 "2013-12-09T04:27:47Z")
Yes I still have them. Don’t wear them. They’re silver – aluminum? I was in 1980-1993. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2013, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289/38 "2013-12-09T05:56:33Z")
I separated from the Air Force in 98. I still have the one’s I was issued in Basic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/veterans-still-got-your-dog-tags/675289.md?page=1)