[Sasparilla]

Geez. Veteran freepers would be willing to provide the personnel, the rifles, the blanks, and the time. Vestiges of political correctness there.

[NEMDF]

I am not 100% certain of this, but I think these military funeral honors in Nebraska are done completely by volunteers and donation funding. I do not think the state government has anything to do with it.

[ASA Vet]

Every veteran funeral I've attended had a Veterans Organization such as the American Legion or VFW provide the honor guard. Those are all volunteers that cost the family nothing.

The only exceptions have been Police Officers. Their departments provided the honor guard.

[garryowenartillery]

During my last few months at Ft. Knox, "Funeral Detail" rotated around all the battalion sized units on post.

A firing squad and pallbearers from our battery with a trumpeter from the Post Band were dispatched to funerals in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and W.Virginia. My detail participated in 5 funerals and after the first everyone in the detail realized how much the ceremonies meant to these soldiers families, so we got strack...by the next I believe we wouldn't have looked out of place at Arlington.

I think this should still be an active duty detail available to vets and families upon request. Set aside some of DoD's billions to bury veterans like our details did....with full military honors by active duty soldiers in Class A uniforms.