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RAVENCLIFF, W.Va. — Early Friday morning, a caravan including specially-trained dogs, law enforcement, West Virginia National Guard excavator, firefighters and other volunteers came to Wyoming County and searched for a soldier who disappeared 63 years ago while taking Christmas presents to his family.
Brenda Haynes-Lester and her sister, Linda Haynes, have worked for years to find their father, Sgt. James Lee Haynes of the United States Army, who was reported missing on Dec. 7, 1963, and declared dead on Dec. 8, 1964. The sisters, who were a year and a half old when their father disappeared, were at a site called Little Bolt that Friday morning as the search got underway.
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