Army lieutenant posted on Facebook looking for someone to return property

(Baonghean.vn) - On the afternoon of July 16, Senior Lieutenant Nguyen Dinh Long returned all the property he picked up to the person who lost it.

Previously, on the morning of July 16, while taking his child to school on National Highway 46, when passing by the Military Command of Nam Dan District (Nghe An), Senior Lieutenant Nguyen Dinh Long, an employee of the 15W reporting unit of Company 9 - Battalion 13 - Brigade 80 - Military Region 4, accidentally picked up a wallet.

Inside, Lieutenant Long found more than 5,000,000 VND, a Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro phone, and some personal documents bearing the names Nguyen Anh Tuan and Phan Thi Hue but no phone number.

Senior Lieutenant Nguyen Dinh Long returned lost property to Ms. Pham Thi Hue. Photo: Xuan Hoa

When he got home, he intended to call the wallet owner's relatives, but because the phone was password-protected, Mr. Long and his wife accessed their personal Facebook page to post a missing person notice. His information received hundreds of likes, comments and shares.

A while later, someone called Ms. Hue's phone. The contact person was a close friend of the owner of the leather wallet and the phone. Through this person, Mr. Long and his wife were able to contact Ms. Phan Thi Hue - the owner of the lost items.

By the afternoon of the same day, the owner of the wallet came to Mr. Long's house to receive all of his property. Upon receiving the property, Mr. Tuan and his wife, Ms. Hue, were very touched and offered to return some money as a "thank you", but Lieutenant Nguyen Dinh Long firmly refused. "This is a very normal thing to do, especially for soldiers like us," said Lieutenant Long.

It is known that Ms. Hue and her husband are in difficult circumstances, their family is engaged in agricultural production, and they have permanent residence in Quynh Thach commune, Quynh Luu. Ms. Hue also said that on the way to her mother's hometown in Thanh Chuong district to visit her sick father, she lost the above mentioned property. The family of Senior Lieutenant Nguyen Dinh Long is also in similar circumstances, the husband is a reporter for the 15W case, the wife is a teacher at Lien Co Kindergarten in Nam Dan district, and has an elderly mother who is sick./.

Xuan Hoa