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Tribute flag found at flea market to be given to fallen Marine's mother
Yahoo News ^
| 7-26-14
| Jason Sickles
Posted on 07/26/2014 12:47:45 PM PDT by windcliff
In the stack of worn American flags, this one stood out: stars, stripes and dozens of heartfelt inscriptions.
Wally and Lanie Mae Brown were recently rummaging at a Texas flea market when one particular cloth caught their attention.
I was shocked to see dedications from Marines all over this flag to a lance corporal named 'Fred,' Lanie Mae writes in a Facebook message. While scouring the many heartfelt messages to this young man, simultaneously we saw 'RIP Fred' and again, simultaneously we said, 'we have to get this flag to his mama.'
Lance Cpl. Fred L. Maciel, 20, of Spring, Texas, was killed Jan. 26, 2005, when the helicopter he was riding in crashed in Iraq.
His mother, Patsy Maciel, received the burial flag that draped his casket nine years ago. But it wasnt until the Browns tracked her down through Facebook that she learned a second flag existed.
The tribute flag bears the final expressions from Marines in his unit.
I cant wait to read what they wrote, Maciel told Houstons KHOU-TV. It sounds crazy, but that is a piece of my son coming back to me and I love them for that.
The Browns, who are parents of Marines, will meet Maciel on Saturday to give her the flag.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: flag; military
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posted on
07/26/2014 12:47:45 PM PDT
by
windcliff
To: windcliff; sionnsar; abigailsmybaby; A CA Guy; airborne; Aloysius88; Altariel; Americanwolf; ...
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posted on
07/26/2014 12:50:34 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(I don't have a copy. one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
To: windcliff
Great story; thanks for posting.
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posted on
07/26/2014 12:52:33 PM PDT
by
Rusty0604
To: windcliff
Semper Fidelis means Semper Fidelis.
TC
To: Pentagon Leatherneck
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posted on
07/26/2014 1:21:02 PM PDT
by
RitaOK
( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
To: windcliff
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posted on
07/26/2014 1:27:35 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: GeronL
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posted on
07/26/2014 1:46:18 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
To: B4Ranch
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posted on
07/26/2014 1:47:23 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Darksheare
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posted on
07/26/2014 2:21:32 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
To: B4Ranch; GeronL
Slim to none. I disagree. A woman at work and her husband buy storage lockers. One which they purchased held memorabilia of a fallen soldier; they put extensive effort into tracking down his family and returning the items.
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posted on
07/26/2014 2:29:36 PM PDT
by
DeaconBenjamin
(A trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're NOT talking real money)
To: DeaconBenjamin
From the story it sounded like they found a flag in a stack of flags and noticed the writing and the name “Fred” and knew someone who had lost a son named “Fred” and immediately decided to send it to her.
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posted on
07/26/2014 2:51:45 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Darksheare
good on them, Prayers up... RIP
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posted on
07/26/2014 2:58:26 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: DeaconBenjamin
And the odds that they would be able to locate the fallen soldiers mother were very slim or perhaps would be impossible.
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posted on
07/26/2014 4:39:33 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
(Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
To: Darksheare
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posted on
07/26/2014 8:35:10 PM PDT
by
OddLane
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posted on
07/26/2014 8:38:13 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Resist in place.)
To: windcliff
Great story. Thanks for saring it.
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posted on
07/27/2014 5:35:24 AM PDT
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Stop wishing for a perfect world. You may get it. Who will you talk to then?)
To: B4Ranch
Fred was not a fallen soldier. He was a Marine! It may seem trivial but there is a difference.
But a great story either way.
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posted on
07/28/2014 6:04:29 AM PDT
by
rfreedom4u
(Your feelings don't trump my free speech!)
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