LAKE POINT — Leaders of Lake Point Arts, a Tooele County nonprofit, is angry about American flags going missing from a 9/11 healing field.

The display at the corner of Saddleback Blvd. and Mountain View Road features 100 U.S. flags.

Chaelea Allred, the group’s president, said she and other community members helped pay for the materials for the field. This is its second year.

“Something that has always been near to my near and dear to my heart is 9/11,” Allred said. “I actually have an uncle that lives in Manhattan. I was in ninth grade when 9/11 happened, and I’ve seen a lot of memorials and a lot of healing fields that have been put together in honor of those who paid the ultimate price that day, and since then, in war.”

She said her fellow Lake Point Arts committee members agreed

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