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Title: Not forgotten, Hundreds honor lonely D Day Vet as he is laid to rest
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URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/1 ... oarding-home.html?intcmp=hpbt4
Published: Dec 18, 2015
Author: Fox News
Post Date: 2015-12-18 14:07:50 by A K A Stone
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Views: 868
Comments: 12
Vet Warren McDonough was 91 when he died Saturday. He never married and his only known survivor was a nephew in Florida. The big crowd who attended his wake Thursday night at Ratterman’s Funeral Home in St. Matthews showed up in response to a call from Lena Lyons, who runs a boarding home where McDonough spent his final days. Lyons told WHAS-TV McDonough deserved to be remembered because of what he did for his country. He was part of the first wave at Omaha Beach and earned a Purple Heart. But he never talked about his wartime experience—except for one time, she said. “He said he pretended to be dead until they all went away,” she told WHAS-TV. “He said, ‘And then I inched slowly across other bodies and I went across this one guy and his lips were moving and I got up close to him and he was saying the Lord's Prayer.’ And he said. ‘I laid with him and stayed with him and prayed with him until he died.’” More strangers are expected to attend McDonough’s funeral Friday at Fairmont Cemetery in Central City. He is being buried with full military honors. At the wake George Southern and other members of the Kentucky and Indiana Patriot Guard stood at the entrance to the funeral home in the cold as an honorary color guard, WLKY-TV reported. "He gave his life and his days for us to have this freedom to do this and we stand in honor of him," Southern told the station. Lyons said McDonough wrote his own obituary but did not include everything. "Nothing about the Purple Heart or his Medal of Courage, nothing, not even that he was in the Army, let alone that he went to Normandy,” she told WLKY. “He was a very humble man.” Lyons told WHAS McDonough always said he was not a hero. “I was just doing what I was supposed to do,” she quoted him as saying. Poster Comment: RIP sir. Your generation was great. I'm missing your generation. It was a much better place when you fine folks were here. God Bless.
honor lonely WWII vet at wake Published December 18, 2015 FoxNews.com Facebook2133 Twitter0 Email Print World War II vet Warren McDonough, who died at 91, was Normandy Invasion survivor World War II vet Warren McDonough, who died at 91, was Normandy Invasion survivor Hundreds of strangers paid tribute at a Kentucky funeral home to a “humble” survivor of World War II’s Normandy Invasion whose caregiver had worried that no one would come to his funeral.
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#5. To: A K A Stone (#0)
At age 91, few people have anyone left because they've outlived them all, sometimes even their own children. One of the downsides of living a very long life. Everyone you ever knew or cared about is already dead. My mom mentions this too and she isn't even 85 yet.
#8. To: TooConservative (#5)
Tell "mom" to get out more often and make new friends and quit hangin' 'round chit-chat channels.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestVet Warren McDonough was 91 when he died Saturday. He never married and his only known survivor was a nephew in Florida. The big crowd who attended his wake Thursday night at Ratterman’s Funeral Home in St. Matthews showed up in response to a call from Lena Lyons, who runs a boarding home where McDonough spent his final days.
Replies to Comment # 5. One of the downsides of living a very long life. Everyone you ever knew or cared about is already dead. My mom mentions this too and she isn't even 85 yet.
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