Posted on 11/09/2018 9:39:32 AM PST by pnz1
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) - Days before Veteran's Day, a Marine Corps Sergeant will be laid to rest in Nashville. Sgt. Leo Stokely was unclaimed and has no known family, but his funeral is shaping up to be an event fit for a hero.
Sgt. Stokely will be laid to rest Friday morning at 10 am. The Vietnam war veteran passed at the age of 69.
"I had a contact with a lady from the VA out of Murfreesboro," said Alan Desmond, Funeral Director at Boyd Funeral Home in Ashland City. "She asked me if I would take care of the arrangements for his funeral."
The service was set to be a quiet one at Middle Tennessee Veterans Cemetery. That is, until Wednesday.
"Yesterday morning, everything changed," Alan noted. "The phone hasn't stopped ringing, the emails and the texts haven't stopped since then."
Stokely's story had caught fire on social media.
(Excerpt) Read more at wkrn.com ...
Thank you for sharing this story. Hope he had a wonderful send-off.
God bless you, Sgt Stokely. Rest easy, your mission is done. We will take the Watch.
“Sgt. Leo Stokely was unclaimed and has no known family.”
Huh? There is no such thing as a Marine without a family. The Marines will be there.
The Missing in America Project (https://www.miap.us/) is an organization that searches in America’s funeral homes for unclaimed veterans, and works to get them buried. I just went there and signed up for the Amazon Smiles program that donates one half percent of some of my purchase cost to the charity that I specified, with no increased cost to me.
It’s pretty sad that there are unclaimed remains being stored throughout this country, but many times it’s just that there is no one left to claim them.
MAGA!
Darn! Fog on my glasses, I wonder how it got there...
Thank You for Posting this.
Thank You for Your Service Sgt. Leo Stokely. RIP SIR.
Ping
Rest in peace, Sgt. Stokely. Thank you for your service.
well done... RIP
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