Strangers provide military sendoff to veterans unclaimed in death
Updated Aug 2; Posted Aug 2
By Gus Burns
One survived World War II. Another made it out of Vietnam. The third served his country during peace time.
Most servicemen are sent off with gallant funerals in death, firing line salutes, a trumpet playing "Taps" and U.S. flag pageantry, but it wasn't looking like that would be the case for three Macomb County veterans who died over the last year.
Their bodies instead lay in morgue freezers.
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