[Nfb-krafters-korner] to my friends here
dianefilipe at comcast.net
dianefilipe at comcast.net
Sun Apr 6 15:15:21 UTC 2014
God Bless you Joyce!
Diane
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Sent: Saturday, April 5, 2014 8:57:28 PM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] to my friends here
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
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