[Nfb-krafters-korner] to my friends here

[Blindhands at aol.com]

Yesterday was really hard, but it was beautiful, touching and so many  
people were there.  Thursday there was 4 VFW members in uniform who stood  along 
side the coffin [2 of them at a time] during the entire 4 hours and they  
did a ceremony too.  These guys were the color guard that are from our town  
VFW.  John was First Vice Commander at the Goldback VFW 9460 Post in  
Stratford, CT.
 
Yesterday at the funeral the commander of the VFW Post gave an eulogy   and 
he had known John for 25 years.  My daughter's husband gave such a  
touching, heartfelt  eulogy  and my daughter's friend that she knew  and went to 
school with from Junior High School, who came over our house and  stayed over 
for the weekend probably when she was a Freshman or Sophomore in  High 
School and never left our home for about 8 years.  Yep, all my kids  left and 
Sara was still there, gave an eulogy  about how he was a father to  her.  The 
minister, who  never met him, but knew my Mom and I listened  to what I had 
to tell her about him and included everything.  They at the  end opened up 
the doors to the funeral home and we had contacted the proper  folks of the 
military and out in front of the funeral home, over looking our  Paradise 
Green in the center of our town, they shot off the guns for the gun  salute  and 
played taps.  The Army fellow came in and presented the  flag to me and I 
hugged it and the tears flowed down until every person went up  to the coffin 
and walked out of the funeral home.  It was then time for me,  JC, Michael 
and Katie to say our good-buys.  
After more tears we all had a group hug and walked out leaving my heart and 
 my eyes there. 
 
I am sitting here with my hands shakingI need some time, but I will pop in  
and out until I get a little past all of this.
 
Thank you for being a friend.  I am treasurering each and every one of  you 
right now.
 
 
 
Love,
Joyce