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"He plucks them right off," Ceglarek said. "If I didn't see it, and I didn't follow the squirrel, I never would have believed it."
The cemetery has grave sites for nearly 965 veterans and the small flags are traditional remembrances left at the sites on Memorial Day.
Ceglarek joked with the Times Herald about the squirrel's apparent affinity for the flags, which the animal removes with ease from the small staffs to which they are attached.
"Maybe they are trying to tell us it is going to be a hard winter," Ceglarek told the newspaper. "Why use leaves when you can get flags?"