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An Ottawa war veteran is looking for help to find his service medals and keep them from being sold.
Eighty-year-old George Guertin said he lost six medals at a Vanier funeral home as he brought them to the service for a fellow veteran a few days ago.
"I was always proud to wear them because this is what I was in my younger days," he said, referring to his service in Korea almost 60 years ago.
Guertin said he scoured the area around the funeral home and called a nearby pawn shop to see if someone had tried to sell them.
"I do hope they will eventually show up again, because they mean so much to me, and to my family," he said.
The medals could fetch several hundred dollars on the open market, but Guertin said it's the emotional value that means the most to him.
"When my passing comes. . . I want to frame them and give them to my son because the surname is in the bottom," he said.
If you find the set of six medals with Guertin's name engraved on three of them, you can contact CTV Ottawa at o
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With a report from CTV Ottawa's Claudia Cautillo
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Posted 01/29/2012 6:25 pm
