One of the veteran's grandsons was shocked to hear about the plaque but overjoyed it wasn't sold or recycled.
YONKERS, N.Y. -- A veteran's cemetery plaque was brought back to its rightful place in Yonkers on Saturday.The bronze grave marker of veteran Samuel Rettie had quite a journey before being returned to its original spot on, of all days, Veterans Day.'It could've went into the wrong hands and been sold. It's an expensive metal,' said John Khader, owner of Top Class Limousine.It turned up by a dumpster just outside of Khader's limousine business in Yonkers this past summer.
Rettie, like much of his family now, lives in Utah.He told CBS New York his grandpa Samuel immigrated to New York from Scotland, served in the New York National Guard in 1916 during World War I, then, like his own father, worked as a carpenter.Rettie was shocked to hear about the plaque but overjoyed that it wasn't sold or recycled.'Speaking from my family, we really appreciate that,' he said. 'It really makes you believe in people again.
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