Texas family gives forgotten tribute flag to Marine's mom
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A Harris County mother will receive a tribute flag for her son more than nine years after he was killed while serving as a Marine in Iraq.
Patsy Maciel says she received her son's belongings and an official U.S. flag after he was killed in a helicopter crash in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2005. She says she didn't learn there was another flag until she recently received a Facebook message from a couple near Beaumont.
Lanie and Walter Brown say they found the flag covered in messages for Lance Cpl. Fred Maciel at a Hemphill flea market. They're meeting Patsy Maciel on Saturday to deliver the flag.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Maciel says she can't wait to read the messages to her son.
Neither family knows how the flag ended up at the market.