When Danny Buckner says, in his low-key way, that he's "three for three," he's not talking about any sport. He's talking about helping people with his trusty metal detector. Though the Canton resident has fun just exploring the county with his device, he also has a knack for recovering things people have lost — and often long since given up trying to find.

Each of these discoveries has touched Buckner, from that wedding band that had been missing for three years to that class ring that had been gone 28, but none pulled at his heartstrings like his latest find. It's another ring, recently lost in the snow by Bret Newmyer, Army staff sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division, currently stationed at Fort Bragg.

"Bret, he's real excited about it," said Buckner.

Excited is hardly the word. Newmyer ...