When A Guy Rescued This Old Trunk From A Dumpster, What He Found Inside Brought Its Owner To Tears
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Roger Briney doesn’t make a habit of jumping into dumpsters. Especially not ones that are about to have their contents crushed by a trash compactor. But this time something caught his eye - and the army veteran just couldn’t leave what he saw to be destroyed along with the garbage.
Briney’s actions that day set in motion a reunion some 25 years in the making. If it hadn’t been for his sharp eyes and quick action, the chest that he spotted in the dumpster would have been consigned to history forever. Instead, though, the priceless items that the chest contained made it back to their rightful home.
Briney served in the military in the early ’70s as a member of the U.S. infantry. He subsequently worked at Arlington National Cemetery for three years and then became a member of the National Guard. Then in 2016 he was dropping off his trash at a compacting site in Virginia when he noticed something in one of the dumpsters. And straight away he jumped into action.
In an interview with WTR News, Briney later explained what he saw. “I was mad as heck because someone threw away the flag,” he said. Yes, he had spotted a folded American flag sticking out of a trunk in the compactor. It’s unlikely that he took any time to think about the potential dangers of the situation, though. Instead, he just jumped in to retrieve the trunk.
The trunk was, moreover, seconds away from being destroyed. “As I lifted the lid up the guy at the dumpster started to crush the pile,” Briney told WTR News. But thanks to his speedy intervention, the box was saved. And he subsequently took it home and put it safely in his basement, where it remained for almost a year.
Briney washed the flag and then refolded it. Yet rather than digging deeper into its origins, he decided to let the matter lie. In fact, on two occasions he planned to get rid of the flag in unserviceable disposal ceremonies at a local American Legion Post. Each time, however, something came up, and Briney was unable to get there at the appointed hour.
The next twist in this strange story came from a friend of Briney, Walker Gaulding, who is also an amateur historian. Gaulding had come over to Briney’s to pick up an old military desk for his collection. And it just so happened that underneath that desk, just where Briney had left it, was the trunk.
It was mainly anxiety that had led Briney to do nothing with the trunk for nearly 12 months. Part of him thought that whoever the trunk had belonged to, it had been their family who had thrown it away. Talking to the Northern Neck News, he said, “One of the reasons I didn’t get into this very much was because I was so afraid that family had done that.”
Conversely, Gaulding was far too intrigued by the footlocker to not investigate further. In fact, he hurriedly put it in his truck in case Briney changed his mind. So when he got it home, Gaulding and his wife began looking through the items that the trunk contained, and they really couldn’t believe what they were seeing.
The trunk was full of incredibly interesting finds. Alongside the folded flag there was a passport, some photographs, a cigarette lighter and even an old marriage license. There were newspaper articles, too. Gaulding’s curiosity was piqued, so he decided to dig deeper to try to find out who the items belonged to.
He soon discovered that the owner had been Lt. Col. Clyde N. Parthree, who had been a pilot in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. And by the looks of the items inside of the trunk, it hadn’t been opened since around 1966. That was the year in which Parthree had died.
Another of Gaulding’s friends, Nigel Mulvena, came over for a visit shortly after Gaulding had retrieved the chest. Naturally, Gaulding showed his friend what he’d found, and there and then, Mulvena decided that he had to reunite the items with their rightful owner. He therefore took to the internet to find out as much as he could about the Parthree family.
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I found an old fashion steamer trunk in the dump that was full of old letters going back seven generation. Incredible.
That is one of the most beautiful stories told. What a fantastic experience to be able to find return such treasure to a family and to also learn the the history of a great american airforce pilot.
One of my favorite stories so far.. Touching
what a blessing. Thank you.
Talk about FANTASTIC!!! KUDOS for being a dumpster diver as he saved a piece of history, both military but more so for the family! Bless his heart for saving the box and then later looking up the family! Years ago finding the rightful owner may have never happened, but thankfully the internet now helps in cases like this!! So nice to hear a story where having the internet did some good!!
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some1 who Stole it.
This is an example of the absolute BEST use of the media -- to have an item find its way back home. I had something similar happen to me, with an old railroad lock, which had a name engraved on it. We actually found the people whose great-great grandfather, in Miami Ohio, had owned it. They were thrilled, and amazed that we'd have taken the rouble to do it. He worked for the Miami Railroad, and they owned a hardware store, and late in the evening (they were Quakers), that would host 'visitors', escaped slaves from the South who were on their way to freedom..This family in Ohio, personally must have helped over 500 people. That railroad lock had a story to tell. But what a joy for us to take part in such a 'homecoming'..I can relate to this story, big time!!
Great Story ! Thank You !
My grandpa was air pilot in Vietnam.N I’m happy for them 🙏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
A great story about preserving family history.
My grandfather was a WWII vet. If something ever happened to his stuff I would be crushed.
Celeste K that’s what almost happened to the box
Yuyuhh K I
What a loving wonderful thing!
Amazing story. God bless
Renews my faith in people! I have my fathers old military foot locker from WWII. That's about all I have left of my fathers, though. It's precious to me. I've been meaning to restore it. My mother painted it, then years later, she put contact paper on it!
Great Story!!!
u guys are great gbu n your family
Thank you.
There are many reasons that things are lost. Sometimes people, especially if elderly, don't remember that they have things in storage. Or a friend who helped someone move from their home was unaware of an attic. Or the person is suddenly removed from the house due to sickness or having passed away. My own family had treasured irreplaceable generational photos disappear during the time a well-known moving van company transported our household goods across the country. I appreciate the videos shown here & find it sad that some people are quick to pass judgment.
So touching, he repeatedly said it 3 times! Good ending 🤗
I cannot understand why anyone would show such disrespect for such a treasure,no matter who it belonged to! Thank God for the happy ending!
Bless You!
Thats awsome
Outstanding!
Wow so awesome
Most beautiful it would have been so terrible if those Priceless Memories would have been lost
thankyou
Trunk full of History. 👍👍
LOL! Great job! Now you have a video and a blooper reel all in one!
I saw a craigslist free ad and went to pick up a table set. I got there and in a rollback found Army cover (cap) other things from an Officer's typewriter case and canteen and booklets. My Dad served in WW2 I cried because a house flipper bought an estate that his own grandchildren didn't want. My friends said l should sell it no way! I'm a Army Veteran myself and l will keep it myself as an Honor to a Fallen Soldier. His horrible grandchildren through his grandparents personal belongings in the trash after their grandpa left his house to them and they sold it for a quick buck. The house flipper asked if I was family when l cried and got angry. I said Yes Army Family! We have 2 generations of Snowflakes with No Respect, Work Ethic and an Entitled Attitude! Freedom isn't Free People! God Bless America! Uncle Jeff!
Lovely story!
Semper Fi, Roger, for rescuing the LTC belongings. RIP LTC, your memorial is intact. I still have my footlocker which been with me in the 'nam, Honduras, Panama, DMZ Korea, among other duty stations.
I loved this story but it also had unfinished questions for me but then there are so many families that just care about money when a person dies and what they can get and not who and what the person was..
Trunk, chest, box. Its a footlocker.
Wow!
Feels good to be an American!
1 word WOW
Amazing
Footlocker...your footlocker & your duffle bag contained all you had.
Good story
OMG..... The photograph in the frame is our former Belgian king Baudoin!! ....didn't expect that 😁😁
Cool story!
The award for 15,000 is for hours not miles. Pilots log flight time not miles. Still a cool story.
Beautiful story and video. Thank you for sharing ❣️
3:57 matches to King of Belgium, also very similar to the stamps which bear his picture.
Being a WWII living historian dumpster diving is not beneath me. I've rescued numerous items that were destined for the landfill.
I’m super confused narrator saying World War I, yet the description says World War II.
I love when narrator says the opposite of whats in the scripted description
And, the uniform says Viet Nam era.
He flew in WWII, if he died in 1966 he was no longer flying for the Air Force
If the story is true, (judging from the items displayed, including a signed portrait of King Baudoin of the Belgians, and the coat of arms of the imperial Pahlavi dynasty of Iran, it seems ‘legit’) it is conceivable that the officer in question had served as a pilot for the U.S. Army Air Corps in both World Wars, and had gone on to serve in the USAF until his retirement (1950s-early ‘60s) before passing away in 1966.
great story, wonder who threw the stuff out?
Libby Rees really I asked the same thing how can people do that how little regard for others and history I wonder how the person who threw that out would feel if someone through their stuff out
I love how the end of the video contains voice over bloopers. Added by mistake of course.
When I was working at a mall I notice a boxes behind the mall I had this feeling that I should check out the boxes but I did not do anything so after 3 day I decided to check the boxes when I noticed a marriage record so I gave it’s to the police who found the owner.
Went to an estate sale about a year ago. Found a stack of old letters tossed out with the rubbish, soaked by the rain, and took them home. After careful drying…
…found out that they’d been written by a local fellow who’d worked in shipyards building Liberty ships, then joined the US Army as part of the Signal Corps during WWII. He was posted in Britain during D-day. And was in Germany with his unit on V-day. I have a letter he wrote that day, soon as his unit got the news. So yeah, this stuff is being lost all the time...
Wtf was with the narration at the end?
Who would throw something like that away ??????
A Social Justice Warrior POS
Probably after the man died, all his stuff would go to his wife if she were still living. Then it would go to her family to take care of after her death. Probably a family member of the wife who either didn't want the stuff or didn't know how it was related to them. Sad.
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That is not a trunk, it's a military FOOT LOCKER.
That's a foot locker
Happy tears
On another note don't pick up thrown away 55 gallon drums that are sealed and weigh over 100lbs... 😳
ScoutCrafter crazy...
Been dumping crack ho bodies? (I'm kidding. ... I *_think_* I'm kidding. - lol)
The U.S. Infantry is not a branch of service. He was an infantryman in the U.S. Army. It's not a trunk, it's a military foot locker. The Air Force did not exist as a separate branch until 1947, 29 years After WW I. And the uniform the officer is pictured in is from the post-WW II period, probably 1950s.
I wonder who through it out ? And how the person or persons got a hold of the trunk 🤔 that's a story all it's own ...
i found a 1933 enfield rifle in an apartment complex dumper.
My dad (decd.) was a decorated WWII combat veteran, I hope his second wife hasn't thrown out the memorabilia he brought back after the war, but she probably did.
you said ww1 not ww2 but it's all good...great story
. . . and we could waist time quibbling over timelines and the various titles assigned aeronautical service branches, but yea ! Great Story !
Was the picture on the wall of "Hanson " found in the Mmmbox too ?
That's a footlocker, not a trunk.
The trunk had some items that belong to the man
It's about time you didn't DRAG something out going on and on and on !!!! And finally a good story !!!
some people are so stupid to throw out something this old!
That was a super cool story. God works in mysterious ways.
JayChewinOnMetal 2 yeah such as allowing school shootings to happen and terrorism to occur. "Mysterious ways"
Think it was man not God
Aiden Track&XC DONT forget starving abused children and animals.
Yeah, very strange ways. Like why did he allow all those kids to be killed by that perv who he has allowed to go on living? There is only one explanation.
Bloopers included..
The time spent not doing anythingwith the trunk puzzles me,are not people as curious as in days past?
I got to say, I really enjoy your videos, but I think there are some things that you could do to improve them. The first thing is the music. I've noticed, in a lot of your videos, the music really contrasts with the topic. For example, this is something mysterious, but also happy. I don't really feel this music fits this topic as well. However, I do think it would fit tragedies and murders, things like that. The next thing is the editing. Is there anyway for you to edit out the mistakes when you read? I've only used two editing softwares, but for both of them, it was really easy to edit out errors. Still really interesting video. I love you Spohn the videos, I just think you can improve on your work. Good luck.
How did it end up in the trash?
redeyetrucker67 because people are twats
who doesn't look in trunk you rescued for a year....nonsense
The Queen yeah pretty dumb
I'm beginning to think the same.
I would have opened it right there at the dumpster not wait a year
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This was only in a dumpster because this country has turned into such a throw away society, and that is how everything is treated, even people.
Northern Neck was mentioned. I wonder if that is Northern Neck in Virginia
the Air Force was not established until 1947. how could he be a pilot with the Air Force in 1941?
Stop calling people by their last names. Call them by their first names.
The person you're talking about was in World War TWO, not one. Moreover, the US Air Force did not exist until 1947, two years after World War II was over. Until then, it was the US Army Air Corps.
okay like I really love the heartfelt story and I'm glad Don was able to receive back his dad's belonging but like just saying the mood was kind of ruined when you literally had to repeat the ending over and over again... like couldn't you just cut it and leave it out of the ending scene?
You don't think that was done on purpose, do you? That was a technical error.
Martin S I know it wasn’t on purpose...I’m just saying that he could’ve edited the video before posting it seeing how it’s not a live stream and all and had to be posted as is.
IKR
David Hamilton
Honestly I don’t see anything wrong with my comment. I only pointed out something that the commentator could improve on and change about his videos to make it better in the future (this isn’t the only time this happened as I’ve seen it in some other videos by him). Yeah it’s nitpicky but I’m not saying anything rude and off hand. I’m just in a way criticing his videos and telling him my opinion on what he can improve to make his videos better. Honestly people are so butthurt about the littlest things nowaday.
Btw this isn’t a reply to start an argument or anything as I hate those kinds of thing but seriously. I don’t think I said anything rude about the content nor about the person himself making the video so people like you should stop taking it so offensively. Anyways I’m not gonna take my comment down but last time I’m going to be replying to these types of comments since y’all can think what u want.
It was edited (pretty obviously). That was the clicking sounds you hear. It was a simple matter that the editing was done incorrectly and the previous bloopers were not cut out completely. The error was that the final draft was not proofed prior to posting. It isn't unheard of and (I speak from years of professional experience in audio editing. lol), considering how many videos this narrator voices, it shows some pretty good professionalism that it doesn't happen more often.
There was no air force in world war 1, it was known as army air corp
When a guy stole this should say
The narration could have easily been condensed from 7 minutes to 4 or 5; it was agonizingly long and repetitive.
I recognized the "chest" immediately as a WWII-era Army footlocker. My late father (a WWII Central Pacific USAAF B-24 pilot) made his own for his return to the States, and I kept it for years until I turned it over to one of his grandchildren. (I hope it still exists.) I’ve still got many of its contents on display at home. War-era mementos aren’t appreciated much by today’s kids, many of which know (and care) little about WWII history. It’s sad. Ah, well...
Wath on Earth is a foto of the King of Belgium dowing in this trunk?
You're lucky that wasn't the crate from Creepshow!
Lol at 6:30 there is an issue with editing
so who threw it out to begin with?
I wonder if they can help me out with a metal i found. I found and old metal . Its found the german war era
US ARMY Air Corps probably.
I wish the family would have explained how the trunk got thrown away. And who’s marriage license was it? Who was the photo of the young man? Unfinished and the narrator needs to get his act together.
You're assuming that the family knows how the trunk got thrown away. There are countless possibilities regarding how it could have been discarded without their knowledge. It was mentioned that the family didn't know what happened to the trunk.
Regarding the marriage license and the photo of the young man, they had nothing to do with the subject of the story.
As for the narrator, you're assuming that he researched the facts of the story which is probably not the case. A narrator simply narrates.
YOU are a perfect example of people forming ideas about something based on nothing but assumptions and assumptions are not facts. YOU need to get YOUR act together and learn how to think critically.
The young man in the photo at 03:58 is Baudouin, king of the belgians from 1951 to 1993 (d.)
retrobebop61 p
mrfester42 - You’re a twit.
You said First World War. Didn’t you mean World War 2?
G6
i believe most of the story except that it was headed for dumpster distruction..who would keep such a thing for a year and not look at it ..oh sure intrigued enough to save it but not look until a year later ?? i think something was stolen along the way maybe money was in it so someone said ""I found it ""
Jennie Spooner
As stated he was afraid that the owners family discarded it
My mother passed over five years ago
I still have yet to go thru everything
Sometimes it's not about closure
It's about not wanting the ending to be just that
The End
Hope this makes some sense
Wish i could have found my grandfather stuff and my fathers i was unlucky enough to loose my ancestors and what my lineage be stowed at least i got the name but i couldnt know much but the tidbits of information
Passport from 1948.
Who picked the music? Awful!
Please stop using the word moreover so much thank you
The original owner of the trunk wasd NOT a pilot in the U.S. AIr Force during WWI The U.S. Air Force did not exist during WWI or WWII for that matter. He was a pilot in the U.S. Army AIr Force.
The U.S. AIr Force was founded in 1947 after WWII.
This is what pisses me off about the internet. Everyone thinks they're an authority and viewers assume that, because they see something on the internet, it must be true... just like most people think if they read something in print like in a book or newspaper it has to be true.
This is utter nonsense.
My point about the difference between the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army AIr Force may seem unimportant to some but errors like this lead people to many false beliefs.
Great again...... I am getting smarter and going to the end for the punch line = to nothing
GET TO THE POINT IMMEDIATELY!!!
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Well maybe we can all pitch in, get you a medal, put it in a box, and toss it in the garbage, just to show you how special we think you are.
I was thinking there would be some dark porn or snuff in the trunk