WWII mementos found in suitcase at thrift store WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Relics of a soldier's past are now back with his family after ending up at a thrift store. Brenda Monson, a history teacher at West Lake Junior High School, bought the old, locked suitcase at a Deseret Industries store over the summer. The students pored over pictures, documents and uniforms found in the suitcase. "I think my favorite pictures are, of course, the Iwo Jima Island," Monson said. "All those years, Jim was a major part of our lives because he wasn't married, and he spent all of his weekends here," Andrews said. Monson says the suitcase was a great learning tool in her history class, and while she knows where it needs to be, she says it's also tough to part with.