Vietnam veteran would have been laid to rest alone but 'brothers' wouldn't let that happen

[Lee]

Kudos to everyone who got involved and showed up.

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American Legion Riders gathered around one Massachusetts Navy veteran after learning that he was going to buried alone, saying in an interview with Fox News Digital that "It isn't about any one of us. It's about what we could do for him."

Anthony L. Meizis, a Vietnam veteran of Weymouth, Mass. died at age 80 in a nursing home without ever having married or fathered children. 

The Navy veteran's one surviving next-of-kin had health complications and could not attend his funeral.

That's when McDonald Keohane Funeral Home Director Cara Johnson sent a Facebook message to the Massachusetts Department of the American Legion Riders, advising them that Meizis was going to be buried alone.

Vice Commander Andrew Pajak received the message. "No veteran should ever be left to go alone," he told Fox News Digital.

Pajak told Fox News Digital that he took the message to Facebook, expecting typical engagement. Over 16,000 likes and 2,100 shares later, and three hundred motorcycle riders emerged to escort Meizis to his final resting place.

"The state police and the local police shut down the rotary to allow this procession to come across. It literally took 4 minutes for all the vehicles to come across." Pajak said.

Read more.   https://www.foxnews.com/us/vietnam-veteran-would-have-been-laid-rest-alone-american-legion-brothers-wouldnt-let-happen

 

 

[BrettGC]

Fair winds and following seas shipmate, you will be remembered.