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  • AxtremusA Offline
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    Axtremus
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    My condolences.

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    • kluursK Offline
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      kluurs
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      #4

      Sorry, Jolly - sounds like a good man who lived a good life.

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      • JollyJ Offline
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        Jolly
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        #5

        There's still a few of those brothers left. Some have gone on. None were what people would consider great men, but they worked their butts off, sometimes doing things the hard way, always trying to do the right thing and just enjoying life.

        Popeye, Pookie, Boydeaux, Feller, Junior, Clyde and Caboose. Clyde was the oldest. Fought in WW2 in Patton's Third Army, later worked for the city and had a small farm. Boydeaux was a paraplegic...Worked as a lineman until an accident broke his back. Popeye worked offshore until he was hurt, then worked as a butcher and had a side business furnishing rodeo stock. Feller ran the maintenance crew at a large institution, later using his people skills as a small-time politician. Pookie worked off-shore and is a very active Shriner, even though he's now blind. Junior is known on the grounds of Angola as Walking Tall, for some legendary reasons.

        The tales I can tell about Christmas morning rabbit hunts, boucheries, pig roasts, the time Popeye jumped through the window at the Goat Hide Chapel...Just all manner of everyday country life made better by the people you were with.

        Life is just a series of stories. Those boys made a lot of good stories.

        “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

        Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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        • George KG Offline
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          George K
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          Always Faithful.

          RIP Marine.

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            #7

            RIP. Will he be buried in a military cemetery?

            Only non-witches get due process.

            • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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            • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

              RIP. Will he be buried in a military cemetery?

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              Jolly
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              @jon-nyc said in Semper Fi:

              RIP. Will he be buried in a military cemetery?

              No. He'll be buried in a little country church cemetery, where the majority of his deceased siblings are buried. He and his wife had been married just over fifty years and those grave plots were taken care of long ago. He wasn't going to a cemetery where she wouldn't be buried beside him.

              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                #9

                My mom is buried with my dad in a military cemetery in Marion Indiana. She even died first. Not sure if that’s policy everywhere though.

                Only non-witches get due process.

                • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                  None were what people would consider great men, but they worked their butts off, sometimes doing things the hard way, always trying to do the right thing and just enjoying

                  Perhaps they were great men, as are many of us here. Depends how you define great.

                  Do not ask your children
                  to strive for extraordinary lives.
                  Such striving may seem admirable,
                  but it is the way of foolishness.
                  Help them instead to find the wonder
                  and the marvel of an ordinary life.
                  Show them the joy of tasting
                  tomatoes, apples and pears.
                  Show them how to cry
                  when pets and people die.
                  Show them the infinite pleasure
                  in the touch of a hand.
                  And make the ordinary come alive for them.
                  The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
                  ― William Martin, The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents

                  “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                  • JollyJ Jolly

                    @jon-nyc said in Semper Fi:

                    RIP. Will he be buried in a military cemetery?

                    No. He'll be buried in a little country church cemetery, where the majority of his deceased siblings are buried. He and his wife had been married just over fifty years and those grave plots were taken care of long ago. He wasn't going to a cemetery where she wouldn't be buried beside him.

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                    @Jolly said in Semper Fi:

                    @jon-nyc said in Semper Fi:

                    RIP. Will he be buried in a military cemetery?

                    No. He'll be buried in a little country church cemetery, where the majority of his deceased siblings are buried. He and his wife had been married just over fifty years and those grave plots were taken care of long ago. He wasn't going to a cemetery where she wouldn't be buried beside him.

                    You know, that question started me thinking...My MIl had eleven siblings, my FIL has eight. All of those folks married, all had children. Between all those couples, were only two divorces. One on MIL's side and one on FIL's side.

                    Of all their kids, very few of those are divorced. Sitting here, I can think of only five. The rest of us have been married forever (the wife and I will be 44 years in about a week, BIL has been married 41, SIL has been married 38 or 39).

                    Must be something in the water. 😊

                    “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                    Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                    • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                      My mom is buried with my dad in a military cemetery in Marion Indiana. She even died first. Not sure if that’s policy everywhere though.

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                      @jon-nyc said in Semper Fi:

                      My mom is buried with my dad in a military cemetery in Marion Indiana. She even died first. Not sure if that’s policy everywhere though.

                      I just looked up the policy for the nearest national cemetery and you're right. Spouses can be buried in those cemeteries. But the one closest is closed to new interments.

                      From their website:

                      The only interments that are being accepted are subsequent interments for veterans or eligible family members in an existing gravesite. Periodically however, burial space may become available due to a canceled reservation or when a disinterment has been completed. When either of these two scenarios occurs, the gravesite is made available to another eligible veteran on a first-come, first-served basis. Since there is no way to know in advance when a gravesite may become available, please contact the cemetery at the time of need to inquire whether space is available.

                      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                        taiwan_girl
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                        A life well lived!

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                          Aqua Letifer
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                          Sounds like a real hell of a guy.

                          RIP, Marine.

                          Please love yourself.

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                            RIP Caboose

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                            • JollyJ Offline
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                              Jolly
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                              Sadly, I'm not at his funeral today. I've got a pretty good cold, so I decided not to pass it on. But my wife is playing for the funeral, torn up shoulder and all.

                              Some notes...

                              1. They got his obit wrong, listing only one combat tour. The man writing up the funeral went to school with Caboose and he knew better. Tried to get the family to change it, but they said they weren't sure. Come to find out, he did do two. Even volunteered to go back again, but the Corps declined to send him.

                              Understandable, though. Even though Caboose was in the Corps and in the USMCR for forty years, and I've known him for 48 years, I've never heard him say a single word about Vietnam. Not one.

                              1. He was supposed to have a Marine set of pallbearers, but a couple of them came down with COVID. Therefore, family will be pallbearers and a mixed service detail will fire the salute.

                              2. They couldn't get everybody into the funeral home (that's a four estate room funeral home with at least a 200 seat chapel.

                              3. Funeral is finishing up about now...The sheriff's department is lining up on the highway in full dress uniform. The sheriff will also furnish the procession escort.

                              4. Caboose will be buried in a Marine blue casket, as referenced above. My wife said it's beautiful.

                              5. Because he liked to cook (mostly smoking, roasting or barbeque) and he probably made thousands of pounds of smoked sausage per year, there will be a lot of pork at the meal after interment. I know of one guy smoking 100 pounds of pork. I'm sure there'll be a lot more.

                              Other than that, this is a big family, a lot of friends and it's going to be an old-time country potluck from people who can cook.

                              Sure wish I could have been there...

                              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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