7-5-2018
WHITE SWAN, Wash. (AP) — Someone has returned a stolen American flag that belonged to a man whose son who was killed in Afghanistan.
Two months after pleading for help on social media, Shawn Marceau tells the Yakima Herald-Republic that he went to his son’s gravesite Tuesday and found the flag folded in front of the headstone.
Marine Lance Cpl. Joe Jackson was 22 when he was killed in 2011 by an improvised bomb while on combat operations in Helmand province.
The flag was signed by Marines in Jackson’s platoon.
The flag and other items were stolen in April when someone broke into Marceau’s truck.