Today was the funeral for the Missing in America Project. It was a really cool experience. The Missing In America Project goes around to mortuaries across the nation and searches for Veterans whose remains have gone unclaimed. Deseret Mortuary, which is a part of Memorial Mortuaries (where Connor works), had unclaimed cremains of 16 veterans. Today they had a service and military honors.
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| In front of Deseret Mortuary before we left. This is a small fraction of the amount of motorcycles that accompanied us. |
I got to go to the service today with Connor. It was held at Utah Veterans Memorial Park. We had a police escort on motorcycles, and about 70 motorcyclists who accompanied us in the hearse. It was really cool. We never had to stop at red lights because the police escort would stop traffic, and we drove all the way from Salt Lake to the cemetery in Bluffdale.
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| You can see in the reflection all the lights from the motorcycles that were following us. |
The service was very nice. Connor was presented with a flag in honor of one of the unclaimed veterans. They asked him to keep it at Deseret Mortuary.
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| Connor accepting the flag. |
Almost all of the news stations were there:
KSL (This one has a good photo of Connor)
Channel 2 was there too, but I can't find the article online.
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