WWII Vet, 98, dons uniform for final salute before dying the next day

UK Daily Mail ^ | 11/14/14 | AP

[DFG]

On Veterans Day, Justus Belfield donned his Army uniform one more time, even though he was too weak to leave his bed at an upstate New York nursing home.

The 98-year-old World War II veteran died the next day.

The Daily Gazette of Schenectady reports that Belfield had worn his uniform every Veterans Day since he and his wife moved into Baptist Health Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Glenville, outside Albany, several years ago.

On Tuesday, the former master sergeant wasn't able to get out of bed to participate in the facility's Veterans Day festivities, so he had the staff dress him in his uniform.

[Jet Jaguar]

Veterans ping.

[TADSLOS]

Duty done. He’s resting in a much, much better place now.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[lonevoice]

We have a patriot in a nursing home and a traitor in the White House.

That's a very powerful and thought provoking comment.

[Tanniker Smith]

Happens here in New York, so naturally, I have to read about it through the UK.

Thank you, sir. Rest well.

[Pride in the USA]

What a poignant story. RIP, Sergeant.