Female Navy Veteran Laid to Rest With Honor

Killeen: Female US Navy veteran with no family laid to rest
KWTX 10 News
By Tianna Jenkins
Jun 06, 2017

(Photo by Tianna Jenkins)

KILLEEN, Texas (KWTX) A service for a U.S. Navy veteran whose family could not be found after her death last month was laid to rest Tuesday in the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Killeen.

Karin Law was an E4 petty officer who served in the Navy from 1981 until 1989.

She died on May 4 in her home.

After repeated attempts to find family members failed, Lake Shore Funeral Home in Waco and the Navy Honor Guard stepped into help.
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Florida Veterans Still in Need Because of Groups Like This!

Veterans charity raises millions of dollars at Florida rest stops, but where is the money going?
Veterans in Need Foundation has troubled past
ABC Action News
Adam Walser
Jun 5, 2017

In the charity’s most recent IRS filing, it reported collecting $448,000 in donations in the latest year available and almost $2.2 Million over five years.

TAMPA, Fla. - Convicted felons, drug users...even a registered sex offender…those are some of the people our I-Team found raising money for the Veterans in Need Foundation at Florida rest areas.

And many aren't even veterans.

The non-profit organization has a long history of complaints, but the state continues to issue them permits, allowing them to raise millions of dollars.

“If you can, $20 will house a vet for a week,” said Nicholas Koleff, as he manned a table in front of a rest stop in Hernando County.
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Orange County Sheriff: Gunman Killed 5 Then Self

Sheriff: Fired worker kills 5, then self as siren approached
Associated Press
By TERRANCE HARRIS AND MIKE SCHNEIDER
Published: June 5, 2017

ORLANDO, Fla. — A lone gunman returned with a semi-automatic pistol to the Orlando awning factory where was fired in April and methodically killed five people Monday, then killed himself at the sound of an approaching siren, authorities said.

Authorities confer near the scene of a shooting where they said there were multiple fatalities in an industrial area near Orlando, Fla., Monday, June 5, 2017. The Orange County Sheriff's Office said on its official Twitter account that the situation has been contained. JOHN RAOUX/AP

Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings identified the shooter as John Robert Neumann Jr., a 45-year-old Army veteran who lived alone and did not appear to be a member of any type of subversive or terrorist organization.

The shooting began at about 8 a.m. after Neuman slipped through a rear door into the cavernous factory, an area larger than two football fields where awnings are stitched together for recreational vehicles. He paused at least once to reload.
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Missing In America Project Solemn Work For Thousands of Forgotten Veterans

Missing in America Project works to inter the unclaimed remains of veterans
St. Augustine Record
Jared Keever
June 4, 2017

Since that time, it has located just shy of 15,000 remains — often referred to as “cremains” — and identified 3,418 of those as veterans.

Kathy Church is Florida State Coordinator for the Missing in America Project, a group that works to identify and inter unclaimed cremated remains of veterans. (PETER.WILLOTT@STAUGUSTINE.COM)

For the last five years, Kathy Church has volunteered a portion of her time working to secure a proper, final resting place for men and women who have served their country. It is quiet, solemn work that gives her satisfaction.

“This is my way of giving back to the veterans,” Church said Wednesday, sitting in a conference room at The Record.

She had just left Craig Funeral Home where she and a small group of volunteers will be focusing their efforts in the coming months.

Church is the Florida coordinator for the Missing in America Project, an organization that identifies and collects the unclaimed cremated remains of veterans and has them interred in national cemeteries.

The national, nonprofit organization started in 2007.
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Culprits Caught Stealing Flags From Texas Veteran!

Squirrels steal Texas veteran's flags to build patriotic nest
UPI
By Ben Hooper
June 4, 2017

June 4 (UPI) -- A Texas veteran's heartbreak at having several U.S. flags stolen from his front yard turned to laughter when he discovered the culprit -- squirrels.

Jennifer Northam said her father, an Air Force veteran, was upset to discover several small U.S. flags had been stolen from the memorial in his San Antonio front yard.

"It wasn't like they had just fallen off," Northam told KABB-TV. "Both of us were kind of heartbroken. We were just confused because we're new to the neighborhood. We didn't know if somebody did it or what happened."
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