Random Strangers Fill Funerals for Forgotten Vets
[Link: www.cnn.com...]
I love this country.
“In the minutes between services, cemetery director Jones asked the crowd whether there were “any family representatives here for Mr. Axtell?”
No one came forward.
“There were 125, give or take, people here who had no idea who … Barrett or Axtell were,” Jones said. “They didn’t know if they were African-American, Hispanic, Caucasian. They didn’t even know they were in the Air Force. But they were here.”
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