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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