{"id":121085,"date":"2021-12-27T13:19:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=121085"},"modified":"2021-12-27T13:19:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T18:19:02","slug":"texas-town-turns-out-for-orphaned-veterans-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=121085","title":{"rendered":"Texas town turns out for orphaned veteran’s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Funeral for USAF vet Joseph Walker (Photo courtesy Giovanni Capriglione)<\/p><\/div>\n

Poe sends in word on how Texans respond when word goes out that a veteran is going to be laid to rest and there’s a fear nobody will show. Joseph Walker was a US Air Force veteran (’64-68) and apparently died without any friends or family. As he was laid to rest with military honors, hundreds showed up to send him off.<\/p>\n

The Daily Caller reports<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery was unable to locate any family members to attend services for a Vietnam Air Force veteran named Joseph Walker \u2014 so staff members charged with organizing his funeral made a public plea for attendance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not leave veterans behind,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Local reporters helped to raise awareness \u2014 and quickly caught the attention of some nationally-known figures as well. All of them had one simple goal: don\u2019t let this veteran be buried alone.<\/p>\n

Texas did not disappoint. Pictures poured in on Monday from people who attended Walker\u2019s funeral, showing long lines of cars and crowds waiting to pay their respects to a hero.<\/p>\n

Walker, who served in the Air Force from 1964-1968, including service in Vietnam, was buried with full military honors on Monday. By all accounts, his service was very well attended.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poe sends in word on how Texans respond when word goes out that a veteran is going to be laid to rest and there’s a fear nobody will show. Joseph Walker was a US Air Force veteran (’64-68) and apparently died without any friends or family. As he was laid to rest with military honors, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-vuZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}