For a second year in a row, honour plaques attached to the Flags of Remembrance by the Windsor waterfront have been stolen.
The 128 Canadian flags represent the 128,000 Canadians who have been killed in action or are missing from the world wars to the present day.
Windsor Co-ordinator of the Veterans Voices of Canada, Terri Davis-Fitzpatrick says the plaques went missing a few weeks ago, so all of them have been taken down.
"There were ten plaques taken, stolen, they blatantly climbed up on the railing and used side cutters, cut them off and threw the tie-wraps down," she says. My guess is they probably threw the plaques in the river, I can't say for certain."
Davis-Fitzpatrick calls the theft disappointing.
"It is very disheartening, it is like desecrating a cemetery with a headstone," she says.
An anonymous donor has come forward to pay for the cost of replacing the plaques at a cost of $250.
"It's very generous" says Davis-Fitzpatrick. "His father served with Essex-Scottish and he sponsored a plaque this year for his father and he felt in his heart that this is what he wanted to do."
Last year, five plaques went missing.