World War II scrapbook made by veteran returned to Northeast Ohio family after being found in trash

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — John T. Lawson recently got the surprise of a lifetime and gained access to memories he never knew he would have access to. ...

November 23, 2022
1:56 AM

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — John T. Lawson recently got the surprise of a lifetime and gained access to memories he never knew he would have access to. John goes by his middle name, Tom. Like many boys who's fathers were in the military, he liked dressing up like dad. "I always honor my Dad as a Marine," Lawson says. "My dad never really talked too much about Korea, Okinawa, and Guam." But Sgt. Eugene Lawson did leave a record, in the form of photographs which the Lawsons thought were lost in time. Someone found it in a trash pile in Richmond, Virginia "I can't believe this," Lawson told 3News.

Carl Bachtel