Teens Step Forward to Serve as Pallbearers for Veteran with No Family

Townhall.com ^ | January 4, 2017 | Todd Starnes

[EinNYC]

Compare and contrast the humane, loving behavior of these young people with the animalistic, fiendish, subhuman behavior of the 4 pieces of human waste who kidnapped and tortured that poor mentally disabled white kid.

[goldstategop]

This IS America.

What a send-off! This is what we must do to honor those who served their country with their last full measure of devotion.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Jerry Pinto received it. It left no one untouched.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Thanks for the reminder today that not ALL of Humanity sucks. :)

[Kaslin]

It sure doesn’t.

[goldstategop]

We see the good in our kids. Those in Chicago are pond scum.

[Little Pig]

I wonder how many Jerry Pintos are languishing in morgues in Blue states right now?

[Moonman62]

So when they say teens they don’t mean “teens” like we usually see in the crooked media?

[Stayfree]

It’s raining on my glasses and keyboard..

[Little Pig]

Typo: Pinto should be Pino

[Kaslin]

The reader’s comments are very good

[cotton]

Apparently there was also an Honor Guard at this service, someone who stood at attention, folded that flag, gave it to the boys and did the inscription described.

[EinNYC]

We see the good in our kids. Those in Chicago are pond scum.

Pond scum? Pond scum serves a useful purpose. The algae provides food and oxygen, and the tiny critters therein provide food for various small creatures such as fish. The 4 accused of this hate crime serve no useful function, merely taking up valuable oxygen and space.

[Kartographer]

Sometimes I almost write off many of the younger generation and then I read a story like this the ember of hope for the future ignites and turns cherry red.

"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
Proverbs 22:6

[Moonman62]

Some pictures here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4085898/Six-teenagers-Mississippi-volunteered-pallbearers-Vietnam-War-veteran-s-funeral-didn-t-family.html

[Ciaphas Cain]

I’ve worked with a number of teens in the past several years. There ARE good ones. And they seem to be growing more in numbers. Almost as if they’ve seen the mistakes of Generation X and the millennials and are determined not to go down that road.

[bgill]

Even one is too many.

Thank you, Jerry.

[fella]

God bless these people for doing this.

For some reason I can’t help but think these young men were Scouts.

[EC Washington]

Our American Legion and VFW Posts handle funerals like this more often than people know about. The local Funeral Homes contact the Post Commander to arrange pall bearers, a chaplain, and color guard. With most of the WWII vets gone, our honor guard numbers are shrinking fast.

[leaning conservative]

Mine too, beautiful story.