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Eight unclaimed Veterans laid to rest with honors in Texas
Escorted by Missing in America Project and Patriot Guard Riders
Paul Reed.
Those are the names of six Army Veterans, one Navy Veteran and one Coast Guard Veteran whose remains were never claimed by family or friends. Thankfully, they received a proper burial at the Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery May 7.
The Missing in America Project escort team and the Patriot Guard Riders (pictured above) escorted the unclaimed Veterans from Amarillo, Texas, to Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery.
The Missing in America Project helps provide honorable, final services and interment for unclaimed Veteran remains with assistance from the Patriot Guard Riders.
May 12, 2021
After a year of COVID-related interruption, the Blue Star Mothers New York Chapter 4 will resume its annual Gold Star Memorial Remembrance Ceremony on Saturday, May 29, at 10 a.m. at Veterans Memorial Park on West Third and Logan streets in Jamestown.
Held annually the Saturday before Memorial Day, the Blue Star Mothers will honor in remembrance those Western New York residents who have died in the service of the United States by memorializing them and acknowledging their Gold Star families left behind. Originally established in May 2013, and desiring that these sacrifices never be forgotten, the local Blue Star Mothers Chapter has secured the privilege of commemorating Western New York’s local Gold Star families with a memorial display, serving as a daily visual remembrance. The memorial established by the Blue Star Mothers at Veterans Memorial Park includes a rock with a bronze plaque honoring the fallen, surrounded by annually-flowering cherry trees, bearing livi
By Brendan LaChance on May 11, 2021
Patriot Guard members honor fallen soldiers from Wyoming, during the Casper Chase event, before the Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo parade, July 10th, 2018. (Brittani Wert, Oil City)
CASPER, Wyo. The Casper American Legion is proposing moving an existing memorial for Wyoming’s fallen soldiers from its current location along the North Platte River Trail west of the Tate Pumphouse.
Casper Parks and Recreation Director Tim Cortez told the Casper City Council on Tuesday that the legion would like to construct a larger memorial at the Patterson-Zonta Park at the intersection of 12th Street and Wyoming Boulevard across from Fort Caspar Museum.
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A long procession slowly wound its way up the low hill leading to the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery North East. The procession was escorted by the Patriot Guard, a veteran-composed motorcycle group, whose sole purpose was to honor a fallen comrade.Â
The final journey had begun at Wurtland Middle School and made its way down the Industrial Parkway, and at each side road along the way emergency vehicles waited as a show of respect and, if need be, to block roads so that the procession would not be interrupted. The American Flag waved farewell from the raised ladders of fire trucks. Motorists pulled onto the shoulder of the road, a sign of respect, until the procession passed by.