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An incredibly moving video
"I’ve been on hot airport tarmacs in summer heat, cold overcast winters w. fellow Patriot Guard Riders standing flag lines waiting for young American Hero to come home. What is really hard, is to look at the soldier’s family nearby, waiting for their loved one to come home on the ANGLE FLIGHT. I’ve also had the honor, sadly, to be pallbearers as there were not enough male family members remaining.
No matter how many escorts of hearse from airport to funeral home, standing flag lines at the funeral home & at grave site, it is so hard, so painful, to hear the honor guard 3 volleys of rifle fire, the bugle playing taps in the quiet of the cemetery. The most pain is when one hears suppressed crying from family, trying hard to keep their composure while they watch the flag folding ceremony & are saying good by, ….. forever to their loved one.
Even though I’ve had the great honor of attending 141 of these funerals during last 10 years & I’ve seen this video several times, it is still BEAUTIFUL, …… and painful. God bless our military and their families." Dick PGR
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