KENTUCKY PRESS NEWS SERVICE
If you’re a veteran missing a medal or discharge papers or a relative
looking to discover a military legacy, all you need to do is visit
www.KYtreasury.com and click on Military Item Listing.
The Kentucky State Treasury is looking to reunite veterans and their
families with hundreds of military items that sit unclaimed in the
Treasury vault.
Kentucky Treasurer Todd Hollenbach said, “We owe it to our military
service members and their families to go the extra mile to return these
items. Their stories deserve to be told, and their memories need to be
preserved."
Among the items in the vault are a bronze star, seven Navy medals, two
purple hearts, numerous battle ribbons and campaign pins, dog tags and
dozens of discharge papers including one from the Civil War.
The state treasurer serves as custodian of all property surrendered to
the state that is presumed lost or abandoned. The military items are
among the more than 50,000 unclaimed items stored in the Treasury vault
that come from the contents of abandoned safe deposit boxes.
Each year the Kentucky Treasury returns millions of dollars in unclaimed
property to Kentucky residents, most of the properties are in the form
of cash from old insurance policies, stocks and bonds and leftover bank
accounts. Under the proactive leadership of Treasurer Hollenbach and his
Treasure Finder’s Program, the Treasury has returned a record $ 81
million in unclaimed property.
