50-year-old message found in a jar on Jersey Shore

[From NBCNews.com]

Dennis Komsa was 12 years old in 1963 when, while vacationing with family along the Jersey Shore, he wrote a note, put it in a glass jar and tossed it into the Atlantic Ocean.

Arthur Fierro, left, president of Property Owners Association of Seaside Heights, Sharon Roher, whose property the jar washed up on after the storm, and her brother, Norman Stanton, who found the bottle when he was helping to clean up debris. Dennis Komsa threw the jar into the waters off Seaside Heights 50 years ago.

It surfaced about a half century later.

Shortly after Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast last October, Norman Stanton found the Ball mason jar while combing through storm debris at his sister