Praise for the Italian gentleman who made the find then tracked down the family.
Something similar happened to my husband last year. He’s a Korean vet. He got a phone call from a town in Ohio where he had never been. It was a teacher who had a 5th grade student who had found a dog tag with my husband’s name on it. The teacher happened to know our daughter in law who is a teacher in a different school, so the man called her to ask if anyone in her family had that name. She said yes, her FIL. So the man called and hubby recited the number that should be on it if it was his. It was his. Strange thing is, we never knew it was missing, and nobody in our family had ever been in that area of Ohio, much less in a rural rural gully where the boy found it. It’s still a mystery, but the tag was returned to my husband.