Navy veteran Lonnie Wayman received full military honors at a Tennessee cemetery after community rallied to ensure he wasn't ...

Lonnie Wayman entered his final resting place not unclaimed, but with a sea of strangers who, in that moment, became family.

South Carolina law requires that all veterans receive a proper burial, and county coroners are tasked with locating family ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Operation Honor Guard and 6 News have partnered once again to support the nonprofit’s mission of providing military funeral services for honorably discharged veterans at no ...

Hundreds of people turned out to pay respects to Lonnie D. Wayman at his funeral Tuesday in Middle Tennessee.

New York National Guard soldiers and airmen provided military funeral honors at 6,166 graveside services in 2025, continuing a declining trend as the number of World War II and Korean War veterans ...

A total of 125 highly trained New York Army National Guard and Air National Guard honor guard members performed 6,166 gravesite military funerals last year, according to Eric Durr, a spokesman for the ...

He had no family left. Hundreds of strangers showed up anyway. The funeral service for Jeffrey Kalnas, a U.S. Navy veteran, was held Wednesday in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, after word spread locally ...

LATHAM, N.Y. – New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen provided military funeral honors at 6,166 graveside services in 2025. The 69 Soldiers of the New York Army National Guard Honor Guard ...

When a veteran dies, the federal system begins a tightly scripted sequence of notifications, record reviews, benefits processing, and decisions about remains and burial. Every step relies on one ...