Speaking from the Heart

The casket team and the family members followed behind.

At the grave site, the casket team set the casket and secured the flag.

The National Cemetary Officer in Command (NCOIC) ensured that the flag was stretched out, leveled, and centered over the casket.

After the NCOIC backed away, the chaplain performed the service.

At the conclusion of the interment service and before the benediction, a 19 gun salute was fired in honoring of Dad's military rank.

The chaplain concluded his service and backed away.

Before a buglar played Taps, the NCOIC presented arms and intiated the rifle volley, followed by folding the flag 13 times.

The folded flag was then passed to the NCOIC, the chaplain, and then to my mother.

It seemed like a dream.

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