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Shit like this that truly has me amazed. People can still be human sometime.
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[url=http://thechive.com/2013/11/13/a-war-veteran-died-with-nobody-to-attend-his-funeral-what-happened-next-was-astonishing-15-photos/]A war veteran died with nobody to attend his funeral. What happened next was astonishing (15 Photos)

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Harold Jellicoe Percival, a veteran of Bomber Command in WWII, died last month aged 99. The death notice in his local paper said that there was nobody to attend his funeral.


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Twitter picked up the story, in the hope that somebody might be able to attend.


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His local paper, the Blackpool Gazette, also covered the story.


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And as a result today, at 11 a.m. on Armistice Day, hundreds of people — service personnel and civilians — gathered in the rain at Lytham Park Crematorium to pay their last respects to Harold.


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Farewell, Harold.
Source: http://thechive.com/2013/11/13/a-war-vet...15-photos/
That actually made me sad reading this..
RJU, post: 103986, member: 17557 Wrote:That actually made me sad reading this..
Yea, but I am glad the town's people got together to give him the proper send off he deserved.