In an attic of a home about to be demolished, Cathy Duncan found a treasure.
An American flag properly folded and placed in a wooden flag casket, along with the soldier’s ribbons, was the revered prize.
There is just one problem: No one knows whose flag it is.
Duncan, with Mike Lowery Construction, was walking through the house before they were about to tear it down.
“I always walk through the places just in case something important was still inside,” she said.
The flag was found in a home on Strickland Street that has since been demolished.
Once the flag was found, it was taken to the Marion County Veterans Service Office with the hopes Veterans Service Officer Dewey Blansett could identify the soldier.
“I was hoping to be able to look at the medals to see if I could research the soldier, but there was not enough information. What we do know is the soldier was an E6 staff sergeant in the Army,” Blansett said.
Blansett did say from looking at the ribbons the soldier had been in the Middle East within the last 30 years.
The house had been a rental through the years so no one knows how long the flag was in the attic.
The recent tenants and owners of the home have both said the flag has been there since they lived there.
If the flag is not claimed, it will be given to the Marion County Historical Museum as a tribute for an unknown soldier, according to Blansett.
Anyone with information about the flags origins should call Blansett at (601) 736-0740.
