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Chris sends us a link to an article<\/a> about Army Reserve Specialist Jackie Gatti who had just returned from Afghanistan and went to dinner with her parents. I guess she had all of the awards she earned during her combat tour in her little rucksack which they left in the pickup truck while they ate;<\/p>\n

When they got back into the family pick-up truck, Gatti realized her military backpack had been stolen out of the back of the truck.<\/p>\n

“I kinda stared at the back of the truck for a minute and I said you have to be kidding me, it’s gone. And that’s really all I could get out of my mouth,” she said.<\/p>\n

Gatti says she fell to her knees sobbing because all of the proof of all the hard work she had put in and bravery she’d displayed for the past eight months was in her backpack.<\/p>\n

“A lot of my military documentation was in there. All my awards from my deployment were in there. I had company coins that my commander and first sergeant had given me as a job well done,” she said.<\/p>\n

“The two hour ride home was, you know, we were crying and we were trying to control ourselves,” Gatti’s mother said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

well, they probably stole it because of the backpack, not even thinking about what was in it. But welcome home, SPC Gatti, those are the types of people you were fighting for over there.<\/p>\n