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I was a pall bearer when I was 15. My Senior Little League's coach had a little 6 year old blonde daughter. Mom was giving her a bath in the kitchen sink, she grabbed a light fixture and was electrocuted.
I will never forget, the little girl looked like an angel in that coffin. Coach Auld was so grief stricken he could barely stand up. That's fugged up lol
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I'm told, a lot of fireman want a firetruck. Did they get their fire truck? Hard to say someone lost their life for nothing.
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Campfire Kahuna
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My cousin (in law) had the fire trucks along the highway when Meemaw Mutt’s hearse traveled down the to the church. Had the whole shift lined up with heads bowed.
He can do that he is a chief
We used to beat the chit outta him with boxing gloves down at the kirby vacuum cleaner shop where we smoked ganja. lol
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Didn’t have to today, thunder and lightning, they are gonna bury the poor woman later. I’m glad that’s over.
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Too many times. I am the oldest son in my generation of a large family, so I have served too many times for elderly family members.
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A couple a year
Being a Baptist deacon has its duties, that and I’m just a heck of a guy.
Pillar of the community. Even when they have enough, they’ve still made me an honorary pall bearer. People want my name in their obit.
Can’t live your whole live in some rathole nowhere town and expect the same. Wait a minute. A Baptist Deacon? Man. The whole image is blown. I had been having suspicions, but wanted to a low you to maintain your personal. Ho-Lee-Heck. Now we gonna find Rene is a Methodist Minister and Deflave is....hmmmmm....Pope? He hauled me to his church game supper thingamabob bout 7 8 yrs ago. Talk about awkward for me. I was the only catholic rastafarian in a den of baptist I think. Last time I ate deer meat I think also. #didntgethitbyaboltofLighteningeither
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Campfire Kahuna
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I try to beat people over the head. I’m not a Free Willer but I am a free will type. If you’ve chosen your path to hell, who am I to be a stumbling block for others?
As for me and my house, you ...you know the thing.
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Well north of a dozen times. Very few that I was even somewhat close too. Several times was asked to help total strangers where they either had no family, or only a handful of old people in attendance who couldn't do it.
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Multiple times. It really gets rough when one of the other guys doesn’t carry his share of the weight. Been there a couple times.
Ron
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Orwell
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About 30yrs ago for my grandfather, one of the last Gallipoli veterans in our region and 95. Two years later for my mother.
Hopefully never again.
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More times than I can count.
Once when I was in my teens, one of my aunts died and it was snow and ice everywhere. It was an old country cemetery and the Herse got stuck. We had to walk the casket up the road, and hand it over a barbwire fence and cross a field to get to the grave site. Everyone else stayed in the cars, and all the pallbearers filled in the grave with shovels.
I may not be smart but I can lift heavy objects
I have a shotgun so I have no need for a 30-06.....
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Campfire Ranger
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OIC,s had it tough presenting flag to next of kin.
Didnt envy them that at all.
3 spent shells in the flag aint in the ceremony regs.
But it was something I did on my detail.
3 volleys 3 shells.
3 is the number of completion from what I always was told also. My MIL had a very nice honor guard presentation due to her wartime service as a USN WAVE. She was very proud of her service (her mother was a USN Yeoman in WW-I) and the honor guard did a fine job. The family was truly appreciative. Last time I was a pallbearer was for my Uncle Silas. The service as in Williamsburg KY but the burial over with the rest of the family in Pineville KY. On the way over there even children playing front yards stopped and took their hats off and stood up in honor. The cemetery in Pineville (by the hospital for those that know it) is a steep angle like much of that country. Silas had a stunning coffin of Pecan that wasn't light. I was wearing dress shoes and wish I'd had boots on the rain slick ground. If we'd dropped him it would have rolled 500 yards to the bottom of the hill.  He might have found that funny. Hard to say with Silas! Both sets of my great grand parents as well as my paternal grand parents are buried in that cemetery. It is a tad steep.
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"The number one problem with America is, a whole lot of people need shot, and nobody is shooting them."
-Master Chief Hershel Davis
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I have a few times, for some reason nephews always get chosen
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Many times and it seems to be getting heavier.
living the good life every day
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