{"id":19414,"date":"2010-06-11T08:16:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T12:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19414"},"modified":"2010-06-11T08:16:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T12:16:42","slug":"stolen-hero-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19414","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Hero in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15639\">I wrote about deceased Norbett Schmidt<\/a> whose ashes were stolen while his family took him to Arlington to be interred last November. Well, Matt sends us a link to yet another veteran&#8217;s ashes that were stolen from the family&#8217;s car;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Her niece\u2019s Coach brand purse lay beneath the passenger\u2019s seat with a return ticket to Massachusetts, the teen\u2019s identification and bank card, and the small cardboard box containing her father\u2019s ashes inside, Postell said.<\/p>\n<p>Charlene said her nephew went out to the car first and came back into the deli to tell them what had happened. They waited about an hour for police to respond, and in that time Charlene called local media to get a message out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need everything back in the purse, but we are most concerned for the ashes,\u201d Charlene Postell said. \u201cWe\u2019d take it back, no questions asked, but without the ashes, I can\u2019t bury my father.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacy.com\/obituaries\/bostonglobe\/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&#038;pid=140377562\">Postell served<\/a> in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what goes through a thief&#8217;s mind when they find the ashes in their pile of booty and they don&#8217;t make an effort to return the remains to the family. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote about deceased Norbett Schmidt whose ashes were stolen while his family took him to &hellip; <a title=\"Stolen Hero in Austin\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19414\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stolen Hero in Austin<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}