As she says, I was a pallbearer. The VFW men did a twenty-one gun salute, played taps, folded up the flag and gave it to LeJeune's son. David Oman had brought a small flag, the kind that goes on a little stick except he'd removed it from the stick. He showed LeJeune's granddaughter how to fold the flag, then gave it to her. The pallbearers all got flowers for our suits and put them on the coffin at the end. Lots of ceremony.
Another thing I didn't know about LeJeune: she invented a synthetic substance called Swistraw for use in crafts.
Wed Sep 03 2003 07:50:
Once again my mother writes what I have a lot of trouble writing: an account of my great-aunt's funeral.
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