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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 8405586, member: 100459&quot;]It was interesting about the &quot;Raiders of the Lost Ark&quot; movie.&nbsp; After all the work Harrison Ford did to &quot;save&quot; the &quot;Ark of the Covenant&quot;, the United States government boxed up the &quot;Ark of the Covenant&quot; in the last scene of the movie and took it to a large government warehouse, never to be seen again.</p><p>When the United States went to war against Iraq, many of the U.S. soldiers as well as Iraqi soldiers and citizens, stole money, gold and other precious metals, and anything else that was not &quot;nailed down.&quot;&nbsp; Billions of dollars have been lost in countries of the Middle East and Afghanistan and other places the U.S. has been.&nbsp; There have been many &quot;tongue in cheek&quot; movies about soldiers and citizens were stealing from the vaults of those countries.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t think that it is happening in the U.S., you have blinders on.&nbsp; There was a &quot;60 Minutes&quot; episode about a custodian that walked out of the Smithsonian with many precious and special items.&nbsp; I don&#039;t remember how he was targeted as a thief of Smithsonian artifacts, but he must have made someone mad.&nbsp; It was televised many decades ago and I don&#039;t remember what happened to him, but many of the artifacts that Nazi, Russian, British, French, and especially the U.S. took during WW II, were sent home.&nbsp; There was a scene towards the end of Band of Brothers mini-series, where it was shown that a U.S. officer was sending things home that he had &quot;found.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p>Sorry for the length.&nbsp; I was an auditor for the State of North Carolina for over 30 years.&nbsp; I found many things that state employees had stolen.&nbsp; Many found ways that there were no procedures protecting the assets of the state.&nbsp; If we find that no one would ever find out that they could not be caught, they will steal.&nbsp; Most of the thefts were reported by someone that the thief offended.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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