Dear cheeseball thief,

We at the Pappy Boyington Veterans Museum (www.themuseums.us) elected to stay open on the Fourth of July so citizens could experience what local vets have sacrificed for the freedoms they were celebrating. We have an outside “open” sign that we weighed down with a valueless ammo box filled with rocks. You elected to pay tribute to the veterans by stealing the ammo box.

We believe in the United States of America and we believe in Karma. Stealing from a veterans museum on the Fourth of July? Really?

To paraphrase that Great American Mr. T: “I pity the Foo…who is dumb enough to steal a box of rocks from a veterans museum on the fourth of July.”

RICHARD LE FRANCIS

Director, Pappy Boyington Veterans Museum

Hayden