Posted on 03/13/2015 8:22:59 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
A man wearing a Marine T-shirt put his arms around an American flag-draped casket Thursday and hugged it. He was one of about 80 people drawn to Our Savior's Lutheran Church Thursday to pay their respects to Jerry Jackson. Many were strangers who didn't know the 58-year-old Marine veteran who died alone, his body found frozen in Indian Mounds Park last month. "That just was so damn tender," Tom Winner said after watching the embrace. Winner, an Air Force veteran who lives a couple of blocks from the St. Paul church, hadn't known Jackson but was moved to attend his funeral. The man giving the casket a final hug was a friend of Jackson's and a fellow Marine. "He would have been amazed," said Randy Caduff, when asked about the funeral and all that had gathered.
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RIP.
They don’t sound like “strangers” to me.
Yeah, good point.
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