Three fallen veterans, with no known families, received military honors Wednesday at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery.
Army Corporal Angela Theriot served from 1985 to 1989, U.S. Air Force Airman Edward Earl Bryant served from 1973 to 1974 and Russell Hart Kinsey of the U.S. Navy received a service medal following his tour in Vietnam. But unfortunately, with no families, their lives and their deaths are a mystery.
“We don’t know if they fell on hard times. We don’t know all that because all we have is the military document and it doesn’t tell the full story,” said Ted Krumm with the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery.
But their service is no mystery.
“Whether is was wartime or not they served. They sacrificed for us,” said Krumm.
No one at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery in Slidell Wednesday knew these three veterans but somehow it didn’t matter.
“They say they had no family,” said Gary Curtiss, a Vietnam veteran. “They will always have family. We are family. We have always been family.”
“It becomes a real family unit,” said Air Force veteran Leonard Capone. “Everyone in your unit sticks together.”
The veteran’s official headstones will arrive in the coming days so they’ll forever have a place where they’ll be remembered.