KCRA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cThat hurts me. That somebody would do something like that, steal a flag,\u201d White told the outlet.<\/p>\n
White is a Vietnam War veteran decorated with the Purple Heart. KCRA 3<\/p>\n
\u201cI fought for that flag. I mean that flag was there before I fought, but I fought for that flag. It\u2019s an American flag, it\u2019s for the United States. For everybody,\u201d White added in an impassioned plea. <\/p>\n
White\u2019s daughter, Daisy Hernandez, said that the theft was a flagrant \u201cviolation\u201d that \u201creally hurt him.\u201d <\/p>\n
Hernandez explained that White is already dealing with more than his fair \u201cshare of health conditions,\u201d including stage 4 prostate cancer and chronic kidney disease.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have no idea who that flag belonged to or the story behind the man it belonged to. It\u2019s just not right,\u201d she told the outlet.<\/p>\n
White spent two decades with the US Army and another two decades with the US Postal Service. KCRA 3<\/p>\n
In his heyday, White was a tanker in the Fourth of the 68th Armor Regiment. He was briefly stationed in Germany before he was relocated to Vietnam at the start of the war, which spanned most of his military career. <\/p>\n
White candidly told the outlet that they certainly \u201cwouldn\u2019t want to be\u201d in Vietnam during the war \u2014 on account of the freakishly large snakes his unit found in the forests. <\/p>\n
After White retired from the military, he spent another two decades working for the US Postal Service.<\/p>\n
His family filed a police report in hopes of tracking down the thief and the wayward flag. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An ailing Vietnam veteran who was honored with the coveted Purple Heart was \u201cheartbroken\u201d when a thief made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74414,22841,7,9,8,74420,3586,513],"class_list":["post-151036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-american-flag","tag-army","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-purple-heart","tag-us-news","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}