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I got home. Got a dbl meat, dbl cheese bacon burger as soon as I got out.

Heard about this on drive home:

Lawrence Brooks, who was the country’s oldest veteran when he died earlier this month at the age of 112, will be laid to rest Saturday in New Orleans. His funeral will include a traditional jazz procession.

The services will be livestreamed on the National WWII Museum’s website.

The private funeral starts at 10 a.m. Saturday at the museum and will be livestreamed for an hour. Internment will be at Mount Olivet Cemetery

Brooks was known as “Honey,” according to his obituary. He died Jan. 5 in his own bed in his Central City home as he’d wanted, said Vanessa Brooks, his daughter and caregiver.

A Norwood native who served in an engineering battalion in the Pacific during the war, Brooks had remained spry until very recently. He even danced a few steps on his porch at his socially distanced 111th birthday party in 2020, as a trio of female singers sang to him from the sidewalk.

That year, the National World War II Museum had received more than 21,500 cards, letters and packages addressed to him from well-wishers from all 50 states and nearly 30 countries.

When Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards made a birthday call to Brooks soon after, the governor advised him to reach out if he needed anything. “Yeah, man, my roof is leaking,” Brooks told Edwards, who soon enlisted help from a regional carpenters’ union to repair a gap in the house’s roof where rain was entering and pouring down the walls.

He enjoyed outings for chocolate frozen yogurt, played games of solitaire for hours and loved to watch wrestling and football on television. But in October, with his health fading, he was sent home from the hospital for hospice care.

Mentally, Brooks remained fairly sharp, family and friends said. He could still recount childhood stories and he had a vivid recollection of being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1940, at age 31.

After Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, he was assigned to the mostly Black 91st Engineer General Service Regiment stationed in Australia. He also served in New Guinea and the Philippines.

https://www.nola.com/news/article_ae65ac70-754d-11ec-b4ea-23e2adeaa1fd.html