Army veteran Ryon Ezell wants his military mementos back.
Nearly everything Ezell collected during his military career was stolen recently from his storage unit in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, reports KTUL.
Ezell enlisted right after high school and deployed to Afghanistan as a combat engineer.
“I had an RPG go through my windshield, I’d been blown up a few times,” he said.
Whoever broke into Ezell’s storage unit made off with everything inside – including military memorabilia that Ezell simply can’t replace.
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“Newspaper and magazine articles that I can’t replace, there were uniforms that I had in there that I was going to save,” Ezell said.
Also inside the unit were things Ezell collected while stationed in Germany.
“I have nightmares every night and that is all that I have left from that deployment, from my time in the army besides that stuff,” he said.
Ezell said he felt sick when he learned of the theft.
“The tears just started coming out,” he said.
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Ezell is asking that the items be returned and no questions will be asked.
“All of those items lead to stories that shaped who I am and how I am,” Ezell said.