“Unattended” is shorthand for an act of grace on the part of the cemetery’s staff, its volunteers, and hundreds of other supporters. Today they are the color guard, offering a stirring wall of red, white and blue during the day’s ceremony. Maybe a hundred gather for these “unattended,” a standing-room-only crowd spilling past the roof of the open-air committal shelter. The honor guard is off to the right, the flags of the color guard on the left. The honor guard quietly steps away.

Source: Fox News May 28, 2018 07:52 UTC