Most people dread going to funerals. About 67 area residents, however, look forward to them. Some may attend as many as two or three services a day when needed, just to participate in a solemn ...

People don’t even have to thank you,” said said Jim Weber, the group’s commander. “I see it in their eyes… that says it all.” ...

The playing of Taps on a bugle is perhaps one of the most recognized pieces of music, but at many veterans funerals, mourners usually hear a recording. Korean War veteran Mike Del Vecchio Sr., of ...

Growing numbers of Vietnam veterans are being laid to rest in recent years, and in many cases their families are attending military funerals. Every eligible veteran can receive military funeral honors ...

Korean War veteran Michael Del Vecchio Sr., 90 of Dover plays Taps on his vintage bugle at veterans funerals which he considers a more fitting tribute than a record version that honor guards usually ...

Friday, a local homeless Vietnam veteran was laid to rest after being killed in an accident in October. 67-year-old Lester Padgett Jr. died on October 7 after being hit by a car. He didn’t have any ...

THE SEVEN VETERANS. TO ME, THIS JUST A STORY ABOUT SEVEN MEN THAT WERE LEFT ALONE AND NOBODY KNEW OF THEM. WITH THE CEREMONY BEFITTING HIS SERVICE, THIS VETERAN WAS LAID TO REST AT THE VETERANS ...

ST. LOUIS -- The musician lifts a bugle to his mouth, and the 24 notes of taps echo across the cemetery, a sad and stirring call played at veterans' funerals. But beginning today, the Missouri ...

When homeless veterans die without family or friends to claim them, some high school students are helping lay them to rest with honor and respect. “There’s something powerful about seeing a coffin in ...

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Hundreds of people attended a military funeral service Tuesday in Boscawen for a World War II veteran who had no known living family.Nashua resident and veteran Stephen Kolesnik was laid to rest at ...

James McCue, 97, served in five major WWII battles, officials said. Scores of strangers came out for the funeral of James McCue, a 97-year-old World War II veteran with no surviving family members, in ...