Cody Lindsey found some precious metals in Lake Tippecanoe recently and reunited them with a veteran. (Photo provided)

Cody Lindsey was raking out a beach at Tippecanoe Lake on Thursday and found some precious metals. They weren’t valuable in dollars and cents, but they were priceless to a North Webster man.

On Thursday, while working for Patona Bay, 17-year-old Lindsey said he saw something shiny in the water. He waded out to the object. “I just picked it up and threw it over on the ground,” the teenager said. “I looked at it later and saw what it was.” Lindsey called his father, Curt Lindsey, to share his findings.

Curt went straight to Facebook and typed in the name that his son read to him off of the dog tags. That is where Aaron Lindsey — Curt’s brother and Cody’s uncle — came into the picture.

“My brother typed in (Fisher’s) name for a quick search on Facebook, seeing that he was on my friends list.” Added Aaron, “Out of the hundreds and possibly thousands of boaters, skiers, tubers and fisherman that go out and enjoy the lake every year, he happened to be a friend of mine that I grew up with.”

Aaron contacted Fisher and he rattled off his Social Security number confirming that they were lost sometime last year.

“I, first off, want to say thank you for your service to our country to Joshua Fisher. Second,” added Aaron, “I want to give a big shout out to one of the best nephews a guy could ask for, Cody Lindsey, for finding these dog tags and easily lucking out and finding the rightful owner and returning them to Josh. When I told Josh that he had found them, he was ecstatic!”