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11-14-07, 08:43 PM
Published: November 14, 2007 12:00 am
Thief takes camera used at Harris ceremony
By Mike Stucka , Staff writer
Salem News
SWAMPSCOTT - Marines were trying to honor one of their own - Capt. Jennifer Harris of Swampscott - but a thief who grabbed the official camera hurt plans to further honor the Swampscott hero.
"Obviously, it's going to diminish what we had set out," said Jim Schultz, Swampscott's veterans' agent and an organizer of the Marine Corps League event in Lynn on Saturday.
The professional photographer, Melissa Bisegna of Salem, said she had taken 500 to 700 pictures, starting with a Lynn English High School ROTC unit getting dressed for the ceremonies. She was there for other poignant moments, such as when a new flag was unveiled and Harris' family posed with a banner.
"I really got into it," Bisegna said.
"This woman had documented pretty much everything for the entire evening," Schultz said. "There were definitely other people snapping pictures, but she was front and center and in the best location."
The photos were to go with a story for the Marine Corps League's magazine, Semper Fi. Bisegna discovered the camera was missing around midnight; she had left it on a table for a few minutes as she helped pack up a Toys for Tots drive.
Schultz said people searched the Franco-American Hall on Western Avenue, and then searched again, in hopes of finding the camera, a Sony DSLR A100.
"We'd love to get the camera and the flash and everything back for her, but at the very least we hope to recover the memory stick with the photographs," Schultz said.
He said someone could return the items, no questions asked, to the Swampscott Police Department or to the Marine Corps League's Capt. Jennifer J. Harris Detachment at 8 Pine St., Swampscott.
Besides other events, the camera contained "the photographs that we wanted to send to the magazine, the photographs to maintain the history of our detachment, photographs we wanted to get to the family," Schultz said.
Harris, 28, was killed when the Marine helicopter she was piloting was shot down in February in Iraq. Though she had finished her third tour of duty, she volunteered to pick up wounded Marines and then get a blood supply, the commandant of the Marine Corps League detachment, Jay Stinson, has said.
Anyone who wants to submit photos to help the Marine Corps League reconstruct the event can send a CD, name and phone number to Jim Schultz, care of the Swampscott Police Department, 86 Burrill St.
Ellie
Thief takes camera used at Harris ceremony
By Mike Stucka , Staff writer
Salem News
SWAMPSCOTT - Marines were trying to honor one of their own - Capt. Jennifer Harris of Swampscott - but a thief who grabbed the official camera hurt plans to further honor the Swampscott hero.
"Obviously, it's going to diminish what we had set out," said Jim Schultz, Swampscott's veterans' agent and an organizer of the Marine Corps League event in Lynn on Saturday.
The professional photographer, Melissa Bisegna of Salem, said she had taken 500 to 700 pictures, starting with a Lynn English High School ROTC unit getting dressed for the ceremonies. She was there for other poignant moments, such as when a new flag was unveiled and Harris' family posed with a banner.
"I really got into it," Bisegna said.
"This woman had documented pretty much everything for the entire evening," Schultz said. "There were definitely other people snapping pictures, but she was front and center and in the best location."
The photos were to go with a story for the Marine Corps League's magazine, Semper Fi. Bisegna discovered the camera was missing around midnight; she had left it on a table for a few minutes as she helped pack up a Toys for Tots drive.
Schultz said people searched the Franco-American Hall on Western Avenue, and then searched again, in hopes of finding the camera, a Sony DSLR A100.
"We'd love to get the camera and the flash and everything back for her, but at the very least we hope to recover the memory stick with the photographs," Schultz said.
He said someone could return the items, no questions asked, to the Swampscott Police Department or to the Marine Corps League's Capt. Jennifer J. Harris Detachment at 8 Pine St., Swampscott.
Besides other events, the camera contained "the photographs that we wanted to send to the magazine, the photographs to maintain the history of our detachment, photographs we wanted to get to the family," Schultz said.
Harris, 28, was killed when the Marine helicopter she was piloting was shot down in February in Iraq. Though she had finished her third tour of duty, she volunteered to pick up wounded Marines and then get a blood supply, the commandant of the Marine Corps League detachment, Jay Stinson, has said.
Anyone who wants to submit photos to help the Marine Corps League reconstruct the event can send a CD, name and phone number to Jim Schultz, care of the Swampscott Police Department, 86 Burrill St.
Ellie