{"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:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=121085","title":{"rendered":"Texas town turns out for orphaned veteran&#8217;s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_121086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121086\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DyAz4DvUwAEHUAE.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-121086\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DyAz4DvUwAEHUAE-444x333.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DyAz4DvUwAEHUAE-444x333.jpeg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DyAz4DvUwAEHUAE-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DyAz4DvUwAEHUAE-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DyAz4DvUwAEHUAE-400x300.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DyAz4DvUwAEHUAE.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Funeral for USAF vet Joseph Walker (Photo courtesy Giovanni Capriglione)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Poe sends in word on how Texans respond when word goes out that a veteran is going to be laid to rest and there&#8217;s a fear nobody will show. Joseph Walker was a US Air Force veteran (&#8217;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<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/01\/28\/public-invited-funeral-air-force-veteran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Caller reports<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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<p>\u201cWe do not leave veterans behind,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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":"<p>Poe sends in word on how Texans respond when word goes out that a veteran is &hellip; <a title=\"Texas town turns out for orphaned veteran&#8217;s funeral\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=121085\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas town turns out for orphaned veteran&#8217;s funeral<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121087,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121085\/revisions\/121087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}