Veterans...Get the hell in here now!

GreatwhiteNorth

GreatwhiteNorth

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BarnBuster said:


A Vietnam veteran was going to be buried alone. Then a stranger helped find his family​

When Dave Fullarton discovered the ashes of former Army Captain Larry Casey, he felt the Vietnam veteran deserved a proper military funeral. But he didn't want to be the only one to honor him. The safe and vault repairman from Maryland came across the remains in February when he was cleaning out the house of a close friend who had died. That friend, he said, turned out to have been best friends with Casey. Neither Fullarton nor his late friend's family had ever met Casey, who died in 2002. They did not know if he had any surviving family members...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-casey-burial-20180514-story.html
http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/a-vietnam-veteran-was-going-to-be-buried-alone-then/article_ba5ed015-a428-5464-b716-cf5dceb458c6.html
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/us/veteran-family-found-for-burial-trnd/index.html
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I get choked up every time I hear this.

 
too larry

too larry

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GreatwhiteNorth said:
I get choked up every time I hear this.

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GreatwhiteNorth said:
My fathers funeral several years ago was with full Military honors.
The respect the color guard showed was humbling.
I hadn't cried in forever before that day. :(
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I was in really bad shape when Daddy died. But I was a little put off that they used a CD of Taps for his funeral. But the Honor Guard were all officers from a pilot training program, and did a wonderful job of the whole service. I still have the empty .223 casing they put in the folds of the flag.

A few years later when Cousin Steve died, the local VFW Honor Guard came out to our family cemetery to do the Honors. They included a real live person playing taps. After that, I never questioned them using a CD again.
 
BarnBuster

BarnBuster

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, right, shakes hands with World War II veteran Sidney Walton at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on May 18. (Mike Groll via AP)
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The Associated Press 19 May 2018
ALBANY, N.Y. -- A 99-year-old World War II veteran, who regretted skipping the chance to meet some of the nation's last Civil War veterans in 1940, is on a mission to visit all 50 states -- so people who've never met a WWII vet can finally meet one. Sidney Walton visited Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Albany on Friday, making it five governors the New York native has met since launching his "No Regrets Tour" in March at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans. The visit to Cuomo's state Capitol office followed statehouse meetings over the past three weeks with the governors of Rhode Island, Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut. A year before enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1941, Walton passed on a chance to meet Civil War veterans in Manhattan!. He says it's his one regret in life.​
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