Thursday, June 18, 2015

Flag Flown in Iraq Among Items Returned to Veteran

Veteran reunited with prized flags stolen when he moved to Oakland
Contra Costa Times
By David DeBolt
POSTED 06/17/2015

SAN LEANDRO -- An Army veteran was at a loss for words this week as police returned to him military items stolen from the man's U-Haul truck when he arrived in Oakland this month from the Midwest, police said.

The Army staff sergeant needed a moment as San Leandro police presented him with a U.S. flag he received upon his retirement, and another flag flown at an Army base in Iraq for 9 minutes and 11 seconds in honor of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Lt. Robert McManus said. His shotgun was also returned.

"Please give me a minute to take all this in," the man told police, McManus said.
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