{"id":66156,"date":"2016-06-05T11:59:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66156"},"modified":"2016-06-05T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T16:02:52","slug":"rebecca-lee-former-veteran-official-charged-with-theft-of-heirloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66156","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Lee former veteran official charged with theft of heirloom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andy11M sends us a link to the story<\/a> of Rebecca Lee, who was the director of the Pickaway County, Ohio Veterans Service office until she was fired in late 2014 for misusing her position and credit cards while she was being investigated for some domestic disputes with her husband. About five years before all of that, on the eve of his demise, Ernest \u201cSnap\u201d Ankrom, who had been a prisoner of war, captured by the Germans and kept in Poland, donated a Nazi flag to the office. The flag had been displayed in his prison, Oflag 64, and torn down by the allied prisoners when they were liberated. They had signed it an presented it to their commander, “Snap” Ankrom. Now the flag is missing;<\/p>\n

After the death in 2009 of World War II veteran Earnest “Snap” Ankrom, Rebecca Lee promised to prominently display a Nazi flag that Ankrom took with him when the prisoner of war camp where he was held was liberated.<\/p>\n

Now, Lee faces 10 years in prison after she was indicted Friday, accused of stealing the swastika flag from the Pickaway County Veterans Service office she had once directed.<\/p>\n

Lee was indicted on seven counts, all involving allegations of her stealing from Pickaway County and its Veterans Service office. She will be served a summons and given a court appearance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The flag had been missing for more than a year before Lee was canned<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Employees at the Veterans Service office…say that they came to work one day more than a year ago and found that the flag and case had been removed. They say that Lee told them it had offended too many people, so she took it down.<\/p>\n

Lewis Jordan, a Vietnam-era Air Force veteran who works at the office, said employees have searched everywhere, and the flag isn\u2019t there. He said it offended no one.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe flag was a nasty symbol of a nasty war, and those men turned it into a tribute,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cThe signatures of those men might as well have been written in blood for their sacrifices.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The flag has been appraised for thousands of dollars, so it’s plausible that Lee sold it. If you’ve seen it or know where it is, tell someone in Pickaway County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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