Thievery Hits A New Low In New Albany...
Sometime on April 29th, the thievishness elements of our fair city hit a new low. Aside from the all to common theft of bicycles, car stereos, and anything made of copper that is not under armed guard, a person or persons walked up to the front of my home and stole from us a monetarily inexpensive item, but an item of great sentimental value, the nostalgic value of this object is based in patriotism and remembrance of a recently deceased loved one.
Shortly before my Father-in-law passed away, he had given to me and my family a new American Flag to replace one that had been flown in front of my house for the better part of a decade. The tattered old Flag was retired, and the new flag had went up on a freshly painted pole.
The flag was mounted on the front brick column of my home, and at 6'2" I could barely reach the mount to place the Flag, and yet a kleptomaniac could not resist the urge to tresspass and steal a symbol of our country and a last gift to our family from a dying man. Shame on the person or persons who stole this flag, for what ever means they felt the need to steal it.
The ugliness of this crime is in the fact the perpetrator(s) do not stand to gain monetarily from this crime, and by choosing to steal this symbol of our Country, they have defiled the flag and everything that it stands for.
