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Get started today at constant contact.com. The journey defined my grandfather started back in 2017 or thereabouts when I decided to find his identity for the first time.

Tony Tran, slate senior tech editor, didn't have much information to go by.

His grandparents met in Vietnam during the war. And growing up, I never knew who he was and my mom never knew who he was because her mom, my grandma and her had lost contact with him shortly after the war.

And my grandma was very, very kind of hush-hush about who he was, like very cagey.

Tony's grandmother left Vietnam not long after the war

and was always pretty quiet about the specifics

of the man she fell in love with.

We knew some things.

We knew there was an American soldier who served in Vietnam during the mid to late 60s and left in the early 70s and I always wanted to find his identity and it wasn't until I embarked on this genealogy project was I able to find him.

Part of the way Tony did that was by using the website find a grave.com. The site is a vast repository of information.

Pictures of headstones, family photos, little memorials to the dead.

Throughout the process of looking for his identity and trying to find out who he was, I would

find different, like find a grave memorials and pages.

And it always came across my mind, like, would have I found him on one of these websites one day.

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