The West Point Ring Recovery Program is a volunteer service operated and funded by graduates and friends of the United States Military Academy. Its mission is to find and repatriate lost USMA class rings. Bill O'Neill, '92, oversees the Ring Recovery Program.

If you've found a West Point Ring, have questions, or need more information, write to Ring Recovery Program.

Members of the extended West Point community and friends of West Point are welcome to join "ring_recovery," e-forum of the Ring Recovery Program. Its focus is discussion of all matters related to recovery of USMA rings and their return to the West Point community.

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Tax deductible donations are sought to support the efforts of the ring recovery program.

Here is an example of a successful recovery from a helpful and kindly eBay seller accomplished in mid-November 2002: Class ring, lady's miniature and wedding rings of Major Horace Grattan Foster, Jr. of the Class of 1941 and his wife, Kathryn Farnum Foster.

Major Foster died as a result of air action over Hankow, China on August 24, 1943 after lingering severely wounded for several hours and with the baby bootie of a three-month-old son, whom he had never seen, close at hand.

These are the rings of a hero of America's efforts against the Axis aggression, the rings of a member of Tom Brokaw's "Greatest Generation."

Major Foster was left initially thought to be buried in the American Cemetery in Hankow, China. However, ring recovery research disclosed that American remains had been evacuated from China when the Communists were on the verge of assuming control. This effort located Major Foster's final resting place. Major Foster had come home. He rests in peace in the cemetery at West Point, New York.
Donations by mail can be made to:

West Point Ring Recovery Program
c/o WP-ORG Inc.
3800 Buffalo Mountain Road
Willis, Virginia 24380

Please indicate class year and affiliation. We are ever so grateful for your consideration.

WP-ORG, Inc., is recognized by the IRS as a 501(C)(3) Non-Profit Organization. 100% of your donation to Ring Recovery Program is tax deductible. Our EIN is 51-0387132.

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