Truth really is stranger than fiction. This story comes from Manchester, Conn. where police are investigating the theft of an American flag from a man dressed in a chicken suit. Only in America could this happen. Eric Didio was waving the flag and dancing outside a newly renovated Boston Market restaurant last Wednesday as part of his job when the robbery happened.

Seven years later, that flag, dubbed the National 9/11 Flag, was sewn back together by tornado survivors in Greensburg, Kansas, and has also been stitched by World War II veterans, survivors of the Ft. Hood, Texas rampage, and Martin Luther King Jr.’s family.