WTC flag returned to Jonathan Ielpi’s sister with apology note
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With a note saying “I am so sorry, I had no idea” a folded American flag was returned overnight Thursday to the Hungtington Station, New York home where it had been displayed earlier this week. The flag, which had flown over the rubble of the World Trade Center after 9/11, belonged to the sister of FDNY Firefighter Jonathan Ielpi.
Ryan Bonner, Great Neck Patch:
The flag, which flew over Ground Zero following 9/11, had been stolen from a flagpole at the home of Melissa Ielpi-Brengel earlier this week.
Ielpi-Brengel’s brother Jonathan Ielpi, a firefighter with FDNY Squad 288 in Queens, died on 9/11, and the flag was one of many given to 9/11 families to fly outside their homes between Memorial Day and July 4, and again on Sept. 11.
“I hope the person or people who took it learned some type of lesson through all of this and that they don’t try to pull something like this again,” Ielpi-Brengel told Patch on Friday.
