Posted on 11/16/2009 2:41:04 AM PST by tlb
A burial at Arlington National Cemetery Friday had all the trimmings of a proper military funeral except one thing, the soldier’s remains.
It's theft in front of the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. has left the family distraught.
The urn containing the remains of bronze star and two purple hearts winner Army Colonel Norbert Otto Schmidt was taken from his family’s SUV just before the funeral.
The thieves also stole a computer and other items from the vehicle.
The ceremony had to be moved to a different part of the cemetery but the gravestone will be moved to its proper place if the urn is found.
Norbert Schmidt always wanted to be buried in Arlington so he could be alongside fellow soldiers he fought with in the Korean War.
His family is hoping the thieves will return his remains.
How sad.
Words fail me. How could a human sink so low.
In DC, it's an epidemic....
In D.C, (Detroit, Gary, Camden) it’s a cultural thing. They probably had no clue of what they had stolen.....probably tried to sniff it and then sold the urn.
Check the whereabouts and alibis of all democrat congress-critters at the time of the theft.
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