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Veteran’s Funeral Drive Detoured By Hearse Drivers To Dunkin' Donuts
AP via Yahoo News ^
| 05.13.2015
| AP via Yahoo!
Posted on 05/13/2015 10:58:55 AM PDT by dware
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To: vetvetdoug
we were requested by the widow to take the veteran to his favourite bar in New Orleans where the people there could toast him.Now see, not a darn thing wrong with this. This is rather amazing, in fact, as far as I'm concerned.
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posted on
05/13/2015 12:47:15 PM PDT
by
dware
(In 2016, the GOP has 2 choices: CRUZ OR LOSE!)
To: vetvetdoug
Well, my eyes wEre clear and dry.
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posted on
05/13/2015 12:59:18 PM PDT
by
bicyclerepair
(Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
To: tumblindice
That is a very deep saying. I love it. Thanks for giving it to all of us today.
“Honor is a gift a man gives himself.” Beautiful!
Now I will search Mr. Robert R. McGregor!
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posted on
05/13/2015 3:18:38 PM PDT
by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
To: dware
“The drivers belong in the unemployment line’’. No they don’t. They belong in the other hearse.
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posted on
05/13/2015 6:29:21 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(`)
To: vetvetdoug
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posted on
05/14/2015 7:10:41 AM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: ViLaLuz
Which bar was it? It was on the edge of the Quarter, Touloose Street best I can remember.
To: vetvetdoug
I was stationed in NOLA for years. Also did many funeral honors but never brought the deceased to a French Quarter bar. How unique.
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posted on
05/14/2015 5:35:42 PM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: ViLaLuz
We were the Honor Guard from Keesler AFB 1974-1977 and had several unique experiences while on the Guard. We were once required to go to the wake where the family insisted on having us toast to the deceased over and over. The next morning at the funeral we made it but just about passed out after it was over. Another time the edges of the burial ground caved in and half of the pallbearers went into the mud and hole. We climbed out honorably and continued on with the funeral. In one of the mausoleums we were required to place the casket on the top of the stack and the guards from the color guard, the officer, all of the pallbearers and the bugler had to help place it there because it was so heavy. Many of the gravesites in NOLA don't lend themselves to a standard run of the mill military funeral.
To: vetvetdoug
Oh my gosh! All ours were uneventful compared to yours.
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posted on
05/14/2015 7:37:41 PM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: sparklite2
“Jeez, it’s not like it was a funeral procession. Now, that would be something to see pulling into donut shop.”
It would be hilarious going through the drive-thru, at least in a movie...
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posted on
05/14/2015 8:15:04 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
To: dware
It could have been worse.
They could have stopped at Starbucks.
Just a little Gallows humor.
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posted on
05/14/2015 8:17:42 PM PDT
by
Kickass Conservative
(Hillary, because it's time for a POTUS without a SCROTUS...)
To: ViLaLuz
Our color guard once in Van Cleve, Mississippi, made themselves lightening rods during a funeral. Needless to say, we struck the colors and headed for the bus in short order. None of us were injured but our shorts were stained.
To: vetvetdoug
I’ve been to Van Cleve... the weather there is terrible in the summer. It seems like lightening rod territory, ha ha ha! Poor color guard.
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posted on
05/15/2015 5:54:53 PM PDT
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
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