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I was stationed in NOLA for years. Also did many funeral honors but never brought the deceased to a French Quarter bar. How unique.

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.