[SmithL]

Hundreds of people pay their respects as the hearse carrying Army Staff Sgt. Jesse Williams passed along Sonoma Avenue.

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A military color guard escorts Williams' coffin off the hearse in Santa Rosa

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The motorcade escorted by police and sheriff's officers passes over the Golden Gate Bridge

[SmithL]

SALUTE!

[RKV]

This one is for all you California-bashers out there. We got our problem areas, like everyone does, but we’re not all fruits and nuts.

[pandoraou812]

Prayers for Army Staff Sgt. Jesse Williams & his family. ~Pandora~

[neodad]

"Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtue."

Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, Circa 1944

[Savage Beast]

Maybe I left California too soon.

Maybe my move was rash.

[Kathy in Alaska]

TAPS

RIP SSgt Jesse Williams

Amazing Grace

[SF Republican]

Sometimes our citizens do make us proud. God bless this man and his family.

[fatrat]

hundreds? there should have been thousands from that heavily populated area. I was heartened to hear that an even larger group showed up in Ukiah for a fallen soldier. i am from Mendocino county and i know most people up there are mushy-headed but there are a few right-thinking folks there.

[fieldmarshaldj]

May he rest in peace.

[Alia]

Thank you, my past fellow Bay Area Californians. Thank you!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

There is hope yet for this country when a funeral motorcade
for a soldier can roll 70 miles through the San Francisco Bay area and people turn out all along the way to salute him....