[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. :)

[Little Pig]

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

[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.

[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.

[Bigg Red]

Thank you so much for posting this. Brought tears to my eyes. And it gives me hope for the youngsters’ generation.

[LibertyLA]

My eyes are a bit misty. Good kids. God bless them.

Or, you could say, God has already blessed them.

[polymuser]

Thank you for this post.
How do we multiply these six to overcome the Chicago four?

[pabianice]

Bravo!

[ChuckHam]

Great kids!

RIP, brother.

[NorthMountain]

"Boys"?

No, these six pallbearers are MEN. They may not know it yet, but they crossed a threshold when they stepped up.

[matthew fuller]

This organization could probably use some support- I think that I will send something soon. (I haven’t as yet, really know nothing about them.)

http://www.miap.us/index.asp

[Rannug]

Hope does exist.

[ameribbean expat]

“There’s talk about putting the flag on display... inside the locker room where four of the pallbearers play football”

Hope they do this. Kudos to these young men, the families who raised them.

[Impy]

A nice story for a change.