Taylor1
03-10-2008, 03:31 PM
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-flpveterans0310sbmar10,0,2563183.story
With a Coast Guard jet overdue for a ceremonial fly-over, a bald eagle emerged as if on cue and soared above the crowd gathered for the dedication Sunday of South Florida's new national cemetery.
Not long after the eagle passed and the dignitaries finished their speeches and a lone bugler played taps, Muriel Friedland stood and wept as she remembered her husband, Irving — one of the first 2,000 veterans and their family members buried there since burials began almost a year ago.
South Florida's aging veterans waited for years for the new cemetery, off State Road 7 south of Lantana Road. Friedland said that after her husband died in February 2007, she had his body held for more than a month and then buried on the first day casket burials started at the South Florida VA National Cemetery.
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With a Coast Guard jet overdue for a ceremonial fly-over, a bald eagle emerged as if on cue and soared above the crowd gathered for the dedication Sunday of South Florida's new national cemetery.
Not long after the eagle passed and the dignitaries finished their speeches and a lone bugler played taps, Muriel Friedland stood and wept as she remembered her husband, Irving — one of the first 2,000 veterans and their family members buried there since burials began almost a year ago.
South Florida's aging veterans waited for years for the new cemetery, off State Road 7 south of Lantana Road. Friedland said that after her husband died in February 2007, she had his body held for more than a month and then buried on the first day casket burials started at the South Florida VA National Cemetery.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/media/thumbnails/photogallery/2008-03/36575716-09160323.jpg
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/media/photo/2008-03/36575372.jpg